8-8-44 Iii/jg3 In Combat With 19 Sqn ?

[hautemarnechris]

David - this is a bit late in the day but I have a question about the incident you describe. I'm researching a Jedburgh mission (Pedlar) in which it's claimed that in August 1944 an air strike was called down on "the Udet squadron" and it was "exterminated".

The Pedlar group was in the Marne department at a village called Bouzy near Chalons-sur-Marne. There are a couple of airfields in the vicinity - Mourmelon, Vatry, and Plivot.

The raid described in your post sounds as though it might have been the one called down by the Pedlar group. Oddly enough the Jedburgh report says that the strike was at Tours - a couple of hundred miles away. But perhaps that's a local name I haven't come across yet.

Do you know which airfield was attacked? Or can anybody else help? Also, what is the full title of the book you mention?

Thanks very much for any info you can give on this.

Chris