Re: Pilot Horst Rippert claimed Saint Exupéry : 31 July 1944 / 15 March 2008 !
 

Hi,

Personally I found it fascinating that such a revelation arrives just before publication of a book about the subject ... Authors are Luc Vanrell (french diver who discovered the wreck of St Ex's P38, no problem with him, he seems to be a serious diver and passionate searcher but 2nd author is a well-known french journalist who made several historical errors before (he was sure he found a video of Rosswell E.T. ..., he believed the story of woman with wolves ... So off course he's a journalist ... Not a searcher.

Stef

Re: Pilot Horst Rippert claimed Saint Exupéry : 31 July 1944 / 15 March 2008 !
 

Unfortunately I can´t read French, but I found this German news: http://www.morgenpost.de/desk/1804368.html

Re: Pilot Horst Rippert claimed Saint Exupéry : 31 July 1944 / 15 March 2008 !
 

This is getting stranger and stranger; Horst Rippert is the brother of the famous German singer Ivan Rebroff (who died a few weeks ago), the Morgenpost reports.

My impression is that this is just a publicity stunt.

Regards,

Bart

Re: Pilot Horst Rippert claimed Saint Exupéry : 31 July 1944 / 15 March 2008 !
 

Nick, what does XL 4202 para. C say?

Re: Pilot Horst Rippert claimed Saint Exupéry : 31 July 1944 / 15 March 2008 !
 

No idea, I haven't read that particular file except with reference to operations in Italy.

If anyone wants to check it out, it's on file DEFE3/64 which contains material decypted from 29-31 July 1944. The time needed to decipher the message makes it unlikely that XL 4202 reports on something that happened on 31 July. It may contain an intention for that day's flying though.

Re: Pilot Horst Rippert claimed Saint Exupéry : 31 July 1944 / 15 March 2008 !
 

When the Lightning of Saint-Ex was found, were there any indication of battle damage?

Regards,

Bart

Re: Pilot Horst Rippert claimed Saint Exupéry : 31 July 1944 / 15 March 2008 !
 

Thanks Nick.

Re: Pilot Horst Rippert claimed Saint Exupéry : 31 July 1944 / 15 March 2008 !
 

Hello.
Sorry to ask a dumb question for this first post but I'm not accustomed with this kind of thing, this Saint-Ex story just amaze me and make me curious...
So are those records you are mentioning are available to public? Are they online?

Thanks and good luck for your research!

Re: Pilot Horst Rippert claimed Saint Exupéry : 31 July 1944 / 15 March 2008 !
 

The feeling of Nick seems pretty good, notices like that concealed for 60 years popping-up at the moment when noboby could argue against...I read the article in the Figaro, there is a picture of Rippert, saying that has half jewish they retain him from front-duty, quite to say that if he was sent in the battle earlier, he will hv win the war, he claims many victories, nd was to hv been decorated of the Ritterkreuz by Hermann himself, + many extraordinary things, concerning his brother Rebroff, who was Ukrainian, as lwf-specialist I am not very pro. but singing is quite my job, nd I hv to say that Rebroff was not a very good singer, nd pretend that he was able to sing 4 octaves....

rémi

Re: Pilot Horst Rippert claimed Saint Exupéry : 31 July 1944 / 15 March 2008 !
 

Rippert? Ritterkreuztrager??