Good evening everyone! I just joined to see if maybe this group would have some insight or help in doing some research for my grandfather.


My grandfather is still alive, he was a Halifax bomber pilot in ww2. 39 missions and they all made it out alive.

On June 2nd 1944 he was detailed to attack the Trappes railway yards near Paris. After bombing the target they were attacked by a FW-190 and as he puts it "with some shifty flying and gunning we shot him down at 15,000 feet, and saw him hit the ground"

For this action he was awarded the DFC.

I would really like to find out what unit would have been there that night. Ideally to find out perhaps the plane and pilot as unrealistic as that may be.

I'm not too sure where to start in my search. I would greatly appreciate any leads or help you gents can provide!

I have my grandads uniforms here and would like to add the correct uniform of the German pilot in question for the luftwaffe portion of my collection.

Cheers, McLean