Thanks for the reply Laurent,
Transport aircraft were certainly still operating between Istres and Sicily at that date. It's just that, at that time, most allied prisoners would be moved quickly away from the lines but by road or rail further North in Italy, there was no need to transport them by plane to a base much further away. What's stranger still is that the German authorities, normally very good at reporting POW's to the Red Cross, did not do this in Doc's case until much later after his death.....
I'll try to look into the poossible paratroop link.
Ian Stevenson
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Originally Posted by Laurent Rizzotti
The probable explanation was that he was brought back by a transport aircraft to Istres (many transport units were based here). Istres was used to ferry by air paratroops to Sicily, even if I am not aware that such flights took place in August 1943 (main moves were in the second decade of July just after the Allied landings in Sicily). But it is probable such flights continued to Italian air bases.
One possibility was that he was captured by German paratroops in Sicily and sent to a paratroops HQ that was still in Istres ?
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