The Eagles Over Europe Project

[Laurent Rizzotti]

My guess is that this will in Germany, because it does not seem to be a combat mission, as such a place will certainly be protected by AA guns.

And the factory is producing smoke, ie is working. I doubt such an installation would have worked in occupied France or Belgium in June or July 1940, given that most people fled before the German advance, and took weeks if not months to come back.

[Horst Weber]

A water-tower of this style still exists in Oberhausen. Ans Oberhausen is not far from Düsseldorf airfield, another occupant of LG 1 those days.

But my favourite guess would be the final phase of a southeast landing approach to Mannheim-Sandhofen, looking left to the Rheingönheim factory or the Oppau BASF-chemical plant.

Good luck !

Horst Weber

[edwest]

Another possible candidate:

http://www.leuna-harze.de/unternehmen/meilensteine/


The relationship between I.G. Farben and BASF is unclear to me. So who owned the Leuna Werke? Another factor that should not be lost is the possibility of expansion as the war drew closer.



Ed