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Originally Posted by Simon Trew
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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Hi all,
For the night of 20/21 February 1944 I have a single Flugbuch entry in my database: The Besatzung Österle took off from Fliegerhorst Montdidier at 20:49 hours in their Ju 188 "+GK" (unit code not given, could still be "3E" for KG6, their previous unit till 13 February 1944) for a "Beleuchter Einsatz" against London. They landed at Chievres at 23:25 hours. From about 10 March 1944 I./KG66 moved from Montdidier to Avord, although Montdidier was occasionally used as an "Einsatzhafen" (Forward Staging Airfield) against England.
PS crash site of Ju 188E-1 Z6+DK is indeed Sailly-Laurette
Hope this helps,
Marcel