Thread: Lt Russell Gradel 373FG/412FS baled out over Belgium Nov 7 1944
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Old 17th January 2024, 15:22
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Re: Lt Russell Gradel 373FG/412FS baled out over Belgium Nov 7 1944
The Oct. 8 entry in this diary also has some fine info on Gradel's crash: http://412th.org/archives/Van%20Kirk%27s%20Diary.htm

There's talk here of a Frenchman. Either the P-47 came down just across the border in France indeed, or Gradel assumed he was in France when having met a French-speaking Belgian. French is the language of southern Belgium after all...

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