Re: 1st lt. albert w. pines; 324 fg / 315 fs
 

@laurent,

found this ... after a hint (#2) from you:
https://web.archive.org/web/20080917...ml/home-2.html


"W0245715" is a coordinate?

thank you & regard
ghostwriter

Re: 1st lt. albert w. pines; 324 fg / 315 fs
 

W0245715 appears to be the "type" of co-ordinate discussed on this site:

http://www.echodelta.net/mbs/eng-welcome.php

except the format would be wO245715 for the Nord de Guerre grid, and when you use the translator on the above website you end up at
Latitude : 50° 06' 04'' N
Longitude : 10° 52' 42'' E
which is nowhere near the actual crash site.

Some of the co-ordinates for other losses on the link you found do seem the check out using the "echodelta" site on the appropriate grid map, so I am not sure where they went wrong on Pines.

Re: 1st lt. albert w. pines; 324 fg / 315 fs
 

How about if it was WQ not WO ? Would that be a closer match ?
Perhaps an early typo error or type ribbon was drying up and it then looked to be an "O" ?

Re: 1st lt. albert w. pines; 324 fg / 315 fs
 

You know his date of death, but does anyone have his date of birth?

Re: 1st lt. albert w. pines; 324 fg / 315 fs
 

In fact, I've found it: https://www.hausach-chronik-online.d...das-vergessen/

14 August 1923 :-)

Re: 1st lt. albert w. pines; 324 fg / 315 fs
 

i did some more research to the coordinates:

wO245715 is wrong ...
it must be wW245715 and this was the launch site,
wW320654 is correct and this was the crash site!!

it's mysterious, there's so much wrong!? :confused:


regards
ghostwriter