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Originally Posted by Laurent Rizzotti
In this place and time, it was probably a fighter-bomber group from the 9th AF that attacked your town. If the aircraft were correctly identified as P-51s, they were probably from the 354th FG.
Other P-51 units flying that day will probably not carry bombs, while RAF units, especially Mustang ones, will probably not fly a fighter-bomber mission in this area.
So my first guess will be to try to find a war diary for the 354th FG.
On a side note, I find it rather strange that a German says that his city was liberated by the Americans in 1945.  |
Laurent and Benjamin !
As Laurent guessed, it's not possible, that a bomb-aimed USAAF 8th AF Fighter Unit carried out this attack against Urmerbach Bahnhof this day. The mission of 352nd FG (P-51 Mustang) this day was a rail recce, which went uneventful, following a route Koblenz - Montabaur - Siegen. It took place from 13:14 hrs - 15:50 hrs and is described as uneventful.
The only 9th AF unit, which appx. fits to the time and location is 373rd FG, which took off at 13:15 hrs and 12 P-47 bombed rail targets at L8297, L5481 and L5781, while Urmersbach is L5784. The landing-time of this unit was 15.20 hrs.
Best wishes !
Horst Weber
and so also