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Re: Spitfire MK V EF736
Many thnaks
I just have to go at SHAA at Vincennes to get few more operational informations .
WHen I was a boy 6 years old ,In the fram of my grand-grend father , I use to play sitting on a wing of Siptfire Mk V of GR 2/33 . the aircraft was hit by flak on 2 October over Belfort and made an emergency landing at Etueont-Haut (90 ) (75 m from the family farm) . The pilot, Lt Claude Bourdier , escaped in the village instead of running to the top of the hill nearby . He was captured by german Troops .
The German trrop removed all important elements of the aircrafts , instrument panels, fuel , and ammunitions , but when the german troops retreated , my grand-grand father and my grand father , dissaembled several parts , including the wings (starboard one) if my memory is correct , to build up a small hangar .
The wing lay behind the farm until I was 6 or 7 , The later fate of the wing is unknown to me .
Does any one of you have any information on Claude Bourdier , he was not on the officer list 1944 and not on the one of 1946. My father , was 6 at that time , remember the family having seen his mother from Paris after war. He saw also the aircraft crash-landing in the meadow near the farm , and killing 2 cows . The dead cod , were split between the families of the village .
Eric
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