Pilot Horst Rippert claimed Saint Exupéry : 31 July 1944 / 15 March 2008 !

[Jan Bobek]

I am going to ask Mr. Rippert if he can support me with comments about July 30. His colleague Fw. Guth claimed a P-38 or B-17

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by Andy Saunders

As RolandF says....lets see! Maybe they have the proof after all. Bring on the evidence,ZDF!

Or they could just get hold of a copy of Luftwaffen-Revue issue 1/93 (March 1993) and read the article «Träume und Wirklichkeit: Das Ende von Antoine de Saint-Exupéry» by Georg Pemmler. (title = Dreams and Reality: the end of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

Pemler (correct spelling) was an officer in 2./NAG 13 in Southern France in the Summer of 1944 and wrote his own memoir Route National Nr. 7.

Pemler recounts the enquiries that were made in his own unit and with JG 200 and Flak outfits when an Allied message was heard, in clear, over the emergency frequency alerting people to watch for a missing P-38 and naming the pilot. (Pemler knew the name having read some of his books). There were sighting reports from German ground echelons of a high-flying recon plane but nobody made any claim of shooting it down.

The French media could check out back numbers of Le Fana de l'Aviation (my xerox of the article doesn't have an issue number/date) for an article by Thierry Thomassin "Le P-38 de Saint Exupéry n'est probablement pas là où on le cheche." ( = Saint-Exupéry's P-38 is probably not where people are looking for it).

[CJE]

That was the Heichele's theory that was turned down years ago.

[RT]

Even if he turns bad in his old years, but maybe the newsscrappers are also a bit faulty, he managed to shot down an impressive bunch of 4 mot, using the poor planes of Jgr.200 he scored also in the last months at a moment of using a Bf109, was rather not a life insurance, looks to hv been among the 10 or 20 better shooters of the Lwf, for that period

Rémi

[Kutscha]

gaynako, Hartmann has he last log book missing.

[gaynako]

Yes, and there is a lot of questions about Hartman's victories..

[Nick Beale]

I've just posted a new article on my website reviewing archival evidence for the Luftwaffe having shot Saint-Exupéry down.

Guess what …

[Andy Fletcher]

As ever, excellent article Nick.

[B.F.M. Droog]

Hello Nick,

Good article indeed. Have you sent it for comments to Jacques Pradel and Luc Vanrell?

Regards,

Bart

[Jan Bobek]

Nice artical Nick! Le Fana de l´Aviation is Nr. 297/August 1994

For others - with Nick´s help I prepared an artical for Czech business newspapers, artical is focused for common public and was published a week ago. It is in Czech language, so Slovak and possibly also Polish citizens can read it.

http://www.ihned.cz/c4-10131700-2363...nich-dokumentu