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Old 30th November 2021, 09:45
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Re: ID of Ju 88 lost on 18th August 1944 near Le Puy

If you mean the claim by 1/Lt. Robert L. Nicholson of 111th TRS, Frank Olynyk gives the location as "SE Oregon". I take this to be a muscle-memory American typo for the French commune of Orgon in the Bouches-du-Rhône département, map ref. 43°47′29″N, 5°02′20″E.

(Another, more extreme typo possibility might be Orange, which had two active airfields at the time).

I don't see any impossible problem with it being a Ju 88, although not one I can identify. The Allied landings in Provence three days earlier had throughly stirred things up and there was a lot of relocation and evacuation or aircraft going on. The German retreat from the region got underway the next day.
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