place where American aviators were questioned in London

[Christian Dieppedalle]

Hello,
I seek information on the place where American aviators were questioned in 1944, or earlier, on their return to England after their escape/evasions from France.

American aviators have told me that they had been locked up in a hotel room in London and had been questioned there in February 1944, others spoke about a US Special Center Reception at 63 Brook Street in London in September 1944.

If anybody on this site knows how or where these American aviators were questioned when they returned to the UK, and also their departure back to the USA, then I am certain that it will interest many readers because this subject is still not fully known.

Christian Dieppedalle

[alieneyes1]

I don't know if this helps you but I have the debriefings of a Canadian evader. His debriefings was done in London, by an American Major.

As far as where it was done in the US? MIS-X was the US equivalent of MI9. Ft Hunt, Virginia:

http://wwii-netherlands-escape-lines...ws-at-ft-hunt/

Regards,

Dave

[RSwank]

It is possible these are the same place. There was a small hotel at 63 Brook Street, run by the Theater Provost Marshall, United Kingdom. This was used by MIS-X to debrief evaders.

From March 9, 1945 onward they used the Hotel Francia, in Paris.

[Christian Dieppedalle]

I thank you much for your answers.
I will continue to seek.
The debriefing of the American aviators and their return to the USA, is never approached however that would be a very good historical document.
Christian (from France)

[Leendert]

Christian,

Some more/other info here: http://www.ww2escapelines.co.uk/escapelines/mi9/

Regards,

Leendert

[RSwank]

Another excellent site concerning MIS-X and MI-9 is this one:
http://www.conscript-heroes.com/index.html

In particular, kind of hidden on the site is a listing of all the MIS-X reports. Click on Articles on the page above, then follow down to MIS-X numbers. Clicking on that get you to the first of three pages here:

http://www.conscript-heroes.com/Art38-MIS-X.html

All of these MIS-X reports are available as pdf files which you can read on-line and save to your computer. Here is a link to the last report (number 2986 as of this moment, for Setser).

http://media.nara.gov/nw/305270/EE-2986.pdf



You can find any of the reports indexed by using the nara.gov link as given above, just change the "number" after the "EE-" to the number of the report you want. Reports 1 to 9 are indexed as 01 to 09.

Here is the link to report 01. (Hollingsworth)
http://media.nara.gov/nw/305270/EE-01.pdf


Here is the link to report 10. (McKee)
http://media.nara.gov/nw/305270/EE-10.pdf


I started looking through some of the reports concerning your question as to what happened next to the evaders after debriefing. Later in the war, many of them just returned to their units. Nothing further was done. Early in the war, when if the returned to their units they could have been recaptured in the same area where they had evaded, they were in fact transferred to a different theater of the war.

[Christian Dieppedalle]

I thank you much for your answers.
I have many American reports of escape and I am in relation to these Web sites.
Nevertheless there is nothing precis with regard to American.
I think that Wilton Park relates to only the brittanic airmens because the American veterans never spoke to me about this place. They only spoke to me about a hotel in London and others spoke to me about the 63 Book Street.
I seek only information on the 63 Brook Street and the return of the airmens to the USA.
Christian

[Leendert]

Christian,

63 Brook Street is mentioned here: http://www.med-dept.com/ramps.php

Regards,

leendert

[Christian Dieppedalle]

Thank You.
I knew this Web site which is very interesting.
I was born in Normandy where there was these Camp Lucky Strike in my area.