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Re: Info on Crash Site Dec 11, 1944 Mannheim
There is a crash site investigation report for just about every Allied aircraft that came down on Reich territory. They were preserved by the Germans, found and captured by the Allies in a cellar at Dulag Luft Oberusel, and are often referred to as the Luftgau crash reports. There is a large amount of information on them scattered about in dozens and dozens of threads right here on this site. They are all in the U.S. National Archives as:
RG 242.9.4 Luftgaukommando Reports Pertaining to Downed Allied Aircraft 1939-45. There is an index on 17 microfiche to the collection, which comprises 20,000+ reports in 600 linear feet.
The reports vary from a page or two all the way up to a fat folder containing 30 to 40 pages of reports, investigatory findings, eyewitness statements, Flak battery statements and claims, fighter pilot statements and claims, personal possessions found on the recovered bodies, etc., etc.
The German effort to investigate these crashes slacked off in 1945, but a crash incident from 11 December 1944 should have been handled thoroughly.
May I ask where in or around Mannheim the crash occurred? I was stationed in Mannheim-Feudenheim during 1958 and 1959.
L.
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