[Henofred]

Hello/Bonjour Sinisa,

The collective memory speaks of bombers and I myself was not thinking of single-seat fighters. Your answer is very interesting - thank you for this new track of research. I have translated an excerpt from a local newspaper (from the Bourges area), probably with overstated terms - we are in June 1940.

Here is what a witness said in a newspaper of the time "La Gazette Berrichonne" (August 3, 1940): "Shocked, dotted with huge holes, there were corpses everywhere, dozens of horses struck, cars overturned, burnt, trees broken. Thirty houses in the village were destroyed in whole or in part. The main wing of the chateau was bombed and the roof collapsed. It is impossible to estimate the exact number of casualties. A total of 104 bodies were found and buried, of which only 5 belonged to people of the village. However, many bodies were pulverized and shredded and the large number of skulls, limbs or isolated fragments that were collected makes it possible to affirm that the number of dead is not less than 120, of which only 53 could be identified. The exact number of wounded is not known, the least wounded having fled, but it is not unreasonable to fix it at about fifty."

Best regards,
Frederic