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Re: Combat with FW190 28 June 1944
Andy
I know that B.4 was Beny-sur-Mer in Normandy. Perhaps I am being too cryptic. Sorry if you know this but a "Queen Mary" was an articulated, low-loader lorry. So, if an aircraft was damaged beyond the facilities and capacity of local Servicing Echelons and Repair and Salvage Units, it was disassembled into the main components, loaded onto a Queen Mary and sent back to the UK (in this case to 511FRU, Odiham) via a returning LST. Early in July 1944 not all the RSUs had moved to France, No 412 RSU did not move to B.4 until August 1944.
It might be entertaining if it were possible to reconstruct the bureaucratic thinking that established "No 511 Forward Repair Unit". As you may have seen from RAF T&S Units this was the only "Forward" Repair Unit which seems to be why it is often logged on Form 78 simply as "FRU". It seems likely that when it was established it was intended to follow the advancing frontline across Europe but strangely when it moved to Europe in November 1944, as No 151 Repair Unit, the "Forward" bit was dropped from the title.
Steve
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