Thread: I./KG 66 operating base(s) during 'Steinbock' London raid Sunday 20 February 1944?
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Old 20th October 2022, 16:49
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Re: I./KG 66 operating base(s) during 'Steinbock' London raid Sunday 20 February 1944?
Thanks very much. Sailly-Laurette 'fits' perfectly. Given the known and estimated times that various Gruppen took off (around 2000-2030 hrs for the most part), the time that the British detected a small mass of aircraft heading N and NW in the Le Touquet - St. Omer - Amiens area (just after 2100 hrs), and the time of the crash, this looks very like a plane that got off the ground OK and which started towards the UK, but which subsequently turned back for some reason and tried to return to Montdidier (a relatively short distance south of Sailly-Laurette). Unfortunately for the crew, they never made it.

I'll hope for Marcel's confirmation or correction when he has a moment.
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