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Re: He 111 - KG 54
Bertrand,
I'm most interested in pinning down the correct location of this forced landing. It appears that the pilot tried to land on the very flat ground after being badly shot up by fighters, but the left main gear collapsed. One of our EOE Working Group members has a photo of this crash that has handwritten on the back (in German): "He111 force-landed near Sanchy Iestre." Someone had taken and printed "Sanchy Iestre" below the Sütterlin script, which is hard for me to interpret. There are two small villages near each other with the name Sanchy, one being Sancy Iestre, although I couldn't get the place to come up on either Google Maps or Mapquest just now. This seems to be some considerable distance, IIRC, from the Arras location. How sure are you of the Oisy-le-Verger location? Is the terrain around that place consistent with what is seen in the many photos of that FL aircraft now known? Quite frankly, there are so many churches in those little towns in that part of France, many of which are similar, that I'm far from certain that the photo in LiF shows the church at Oisy-le-Verger.
Any further thoughts on this?
Regards,
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