[tcolvin]

Thanks, dp. You cracked it.

The Frenchman wrote - and not even to me;
"Pourrais tu m'aider,un ami m'a remis une plaque avec un nom et un matricule,d'apres ce qui a ete dit,celle aurait ete recupere en 1944,suite a un crasch en lorraine(france)
Suivant le temoignage il s'agirait de pilote canadien ,je n'ai pas plus de renseignements a te fournir,peut etre avion mosquito ou B 17".


This translates as:

"Could you please help me. A friend has sent a plaque with a name and number, saying it was recovered in 1944 following an air crash in Lorraine in France.
According to a witness, it refers to a Canadian pilot.

I have no more information to give you, but the plane might have been a Mosquito or a B17".


We'll wait and see if your information elicits anything more from the Frenchman.
Otherwise it looks as if Pfc Floyd Decamp lost the article either while helping clear wreckage of a Canadian Mosquito or US B17, or he was in the B17 and walked away from it.


I knew the number was not Canadian, as they had a 'C' prefix and were only five digits long, I believe, and it was not British since they had seven digits. It makes sense that it was US as it came from Lorraine where Bradley's lot were fighting.



Tony