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Old 15th March 2011, 15:52
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Re: Stab & II./JG 26 - Morgny

Hello!

I think it was the same one: MH mentions "Morgny Bezu la Forêt", and we are talking 35-36 aircraft, for 4 days; there would be no need to have two adjacent airfields like it was the often case later in the very fighter-crowded Calais area during BoB...
The airfield was probably situated between the two hamlets of Le Vauroux and Maurepas, SW of Bezu la Forêt. At the time this area was bordered N and S by orchards which were usually put to good use by the Germans to disperse their aircraft...
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