Me109 E crashed near Lourdes on 11 November 1944

[ouidjat]

Salut Gilles,

And you know as I know that it's a difficulty even for us French!
Note: 2./JG101 was based in Pau-Ost (?) during that period; Lourdes did concern 3./JG101 following that page http://www.ww2.dk/air/jagd/jg101.html. But what was Pau-Ost? Tarbes? Ossun? A simple Airstrip....?

Regards, Franck.

[ouidjat]

...
Ooooo One more note:
Matti wrote that Gefr. Kurt Riemer grab was in Berneuil. Still - again and again - we can find at least two Berneuil; One in Picardie and the other one in Charente.

What ever the place it's strange to get his body from Argelès-Gazost to ... Berneuil, Charente one. Any explanations? Something to do with, let's say, South-West LW High command place?...

Regards, France.

[Laurent Rizzotti]

Hi Franck,

Actually sometimes after WWII, the German dead in Southern France were gathered in big war cemeteries. As a general rule, all dead of Southwest France were gathered in Berneuil and all dead of Southeast France in Dagneux, near Lyon.

Berneuil war cemetery now has 8 342 graves coming from 15 departements.

See http://www.volksbund.de/fileadmin/re...20Berneuil.pdf