Seeking crash location, presumably France, for Recon Do17P of 4.(F)/121 Missing on 28.03.40

[Larry Hickey]

Patrick,

I've forwarded this on to Peter Cornwell, our LW Loss List manager, to see what he says. This suggests that the plane may have come down in Belgium and not France, although the cemetery is in France. Obviously this as an incident that merits further research. A loss well before the main blitzkrieg on 10 May should be well documented in the records of either France or Belgium, whichever place the plane crashed. Any additional information on this one, either photos or the specific crash place, that anyone can locate will be much appreciated.

[ARADO001]

Hello Larry,

There also exists a small village named Moncourt, east of Nancy, Département Moselle in France. This might be a better candidate for the crash location because they were on a sortie to Toul which is west of Nancy.

Regards,
Patrick

[Bertrand H]

Hi Larry,


According to the war diary of Forces Aériennes 103 the "claim" for this loss is to the meteorologist of FA 103 the slt Cubast !

Why ? because there is an heavy snow storm and the a/c crashed at 10 NW of Etain at Maucourt.

It is Maucourt-sur-Orne (Meuse)

Bertrand