Bonjour,
Please, I need your help concerning all informations about Allied fighter groups missions (armed recon, sweeps etc) occured in Tours (Central France, on Loire River) and vicinity of Tours :
6 August 1944 : West of Tours :
Above all this attack :
18h30 : Attack of the Railstation and a stalled train in
Langeais. Eye wtinesses spoke about Lightning P-38 …
Langeais is settled 30 kilometers West of Tours.
It was really a very important attack which gave the occasion to Allied soldiers and French fighters to escape …
Source :
http://memoiredeguerre.free.fr/convoi44/langeais.htm
7 August 1944 :
Same area and same attack …
25 August 1944 : South of Tours :
Same question about an Allied attack which occured in the morning ( ?) against 1 or 2 88 mm guns in
Maillé …
1 gun was destroyed.
Maillé is 45 km South of Tours.
It was also a very important attack because there German killed people and bombed also the village with heavy guns …
So it was terrible … 124 civilians were killed by German forces on that dark day (Paris was liberated in the same time …). So more casualties if this 88 was not destroyed …
Source :
https://www.maisondusouvenir.fr/mail...-nom-une-date/
Thank you very much for your assistance,
Philippe
Airwar over the city of Tours (France) : about air attacks on 6, 7 and 25 August 1944