Hello, Roland,
first of all, a happy and healthy new year....
But now my head is smoking, I haven't gone that deep into it yet.........
This digital map of Cologne is of course great. So far I only had this American map of 1940 in printed form, which makes it very tedious to find the individual places.
One problem is, of course, that a lot has been built here since the 50's, especially on the outskirts of LÜLSDORF. If you open the Google-maps of Lülsdorf, there was all field to the left of Bachstr, there was no house except the Schneppenhof at the bottom left of the Rhine bank.
I had assumed the crash site (according to eyewitnesses) to be where BARRYNEALS is today, about in the field above. In the square field over there was a 8,8 cm FLAK with big ramparts and barracks...I have aerial photos from 1944 where you can see all this quite well......
Today I will work through the whole thing in peace and quiet and hopefully understand it :-))
But I have another question: The attack on 11.04.45 on ASCHERSLEBEN took place on a previously determined approach and return flight route......I have already looked through some things, but found nothing in this regard. Do you perhaps have a source on this.
Thanks again and have a nice day
Manni
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