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Re: 355th Fighter Group 11.Sept.1944
Hello Bill, Hello Jan, Hello Matthias,
thank you so much for the answers and the help in the case of Mc Curry, Morgen and Rafferty. Sorry for my late answer to you e-mails. But I´m often very busy with my work. Next Sunday I will sent you emails with pictures and more files and informations about the 355th Group, JG 53 und JG 300.
Bill, I have located the crashplace of morgan too. He crashed near the village Hassenhausen, north of Gießen. 1km away Ofhr. Baer, JG 53 crashed and died in his plane. I have JG 300 losses on this day. Sunday you have the complete informations.
We have seven former WWII airdromes in my area.
Gießen airfield was a "Flughafen I.Ordnung". Then we have the airfield Ettingshausen near Grünberg (Sept/Okt.44- Mrz 45 JG 2 was stationed here), Nidda (Harb JG 2) and Kirchgöns near Butzbach. These airfields are around Gießen.
The next airfields in the Marburg area (ca.25km north of Gießen) are Bracht (a small airfield north of Marburg (20km)), Kirtdorf (east of Marburg (35) and Marburg-Wehrda (Gilder Field).
Wetzlar is west of Gießen (15km) and Klein-Rechtenbach south-west of Gießen. It is very sure that rafferty and mc curry comes from north an flown over the airfield Gießen. I have two eye whitnisses. They saw the planes flying to southwest Klein- Linden. In Klein Linden (south of Gießen 1km) there was railway flak. They heard the flak fired an then they saw smoke by both planes. A ressident of Klein Rechtenach saw Mc Currys plane. He comes from northeast and crashed in way to southwest. Rafferty also. On Raffertys crashplace you see that correct because the trees were damaged from east to west.
The Rest follow Sunday.
Regards
Mirko
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