The Eagles Over Europe Project

[edwest]

Are photos of the plants located at the Ruhr available? I will try to locate something, but I'm throwing this out as a possibility for other researchers. Also, the Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex, Essen, Germany.




Ed

[edwest]

A possibility?


http://lostimagesofww2.com/photos/places/saar.php





Ed

[Larry Hickey]

Ed,

I looked at what you posted. The real key to the ID of this is the five smokestacks with the specific buildings and the water tower behind them. "Lilsis" also sent me a PM with something like this row of stacks, but the buildings don't seem to match. The location also is in NE German, which is not where I think that this is likely to be. Both France and Belgium also has major industrial areas like this, although I don't think this could have been over one of them until after the surrenders. This doesn't look like a combat mission over the plant facility.

We'll find this, as the smokestacks are very distinctive, and are probably the key to identifying this place, and thus being able to ID the approximate date.

[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

[Larry Hickey]

Hello,

V.(Z)/LG1 was based at Alencon AF, France for about a week at the end of June and the beginning of July 1940. This photo appears in the book, "Zerstörer Gruppe," by Ludwig von Eimannsberger with the caption that it was taken at that base. However, the location doesn't fit with the markings and W.Nr. on this a/c, in terms of the career of Hptm. Horst Liensberger, the unit Gr Kdr, whose plane is in the picture.

Can anyone confirm that this is Alencon?

http://ihra.smugmug.com/photos/i-bxk...-bxkFZQv-L.jpg

Thanx for any assistance.

[Larry Hickey]

Hello,

I've had a direct email from a French expert who says that this isn't Alencon. This could even be an airfield in Germany prior to the Western Campaign, rather than at Alencon just after the WC/FC. Does anyone recognize this place, in either France or western Germany.

[RudiS]

Larry,

Attached is a ebay auction photo with similar hangars. According to the seller this photo was taken at Lyon. Hope this might help.

Regards,
Rudi.

[Bertrand H]

Rudy,

Could be Lyon but before WWII there were many similar hangar called "Arnodin-Eiffel" in France.

Examples here :

http://www.planete-tp.com/IMG/pdf/Ha..._cle05543c.pdf

I think that the high tower will let us the solution.

Bertrand