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Re: I/LLG1 and LLG2 - Istres 1943
I donīt know that these Glider Units were based at Istres. According German OOB dated July 10 1943:
Stab, I./LLG 1 (52 Do 17, 136 DFS 230) Lezignan
II./LLG 1 (23 Ju 87, 24 DFS 230, In Verlegung von Halberstadt) Marseille
III./LLG 1 (32 Hs 126, 120 DFS 230) Valence
I./LLG 2 (27 He 111, 188 Go 242) Orange
DFS-Staffel 23 (69 DFS 230) Orange
GS-Kdo. 1 and GS-Kdo. 2 (11 He 111Z, 20 Me 321) Istres
American Air Raids on Istres (August 17 1943) and Practica di Mare (September 17 1943) destroyed and damaged nearly 250 tugs and gliders. At the end of September 1943 all gliders units were evacuated from southern France and Italy to airfields in northern France.
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