Spitfire MK V EF736

[Bertrand H]

Eric,

This Spitfire V EF736 lost with Groupe de Reconnaissance 2/33 on 9 november 1944 in Dijon-Longvic. A/C crashed on landing due to the wind. Pilot was lieutenant Collongue (safe) ; Spit was 115 ops missions with GR 2/33.

HTH

Bertrand

[Eric Larger]

Many thnaks

I just have to go at SHAA at Vincennes to get few more operational informations .

WHen I was a boy 6 years old ,In the fram of my grand-grend father , I use to play sitting on a wing of Siptfire Mk V of GR 2/33 . the aircraft was hit by flak on 2 October over Belfort and made an emergency landing at Etueont-Haut (90 ) (75 m from the family farm) . The pilot, Lt Claude Bourdier , escaped in the village instead of running to the top of the hill nearby . He was captured by german Troops .

The German trrop removed all important elements of the aircrafts , instrument panels, fuel , and ammunitions , but when the german troops retreated , my grand-grand father and my grand father , dissaembled several parts , including the wings (starboard one) if my memory is correct , to build up a small hangar .

The wing lay behind the farm until I was 6 or 7 , The later fate of the wing is unknown to me .

Does any one of you have any information on Claude Bourdier , he was not on the officer list 1944 and not on the one of 1946. My father , was 6 at that time , remember the family having seen his mother from Paris after war. He saw also the aircraft crash-landing in the meadow near the farm , and killing 2 cows . The dead cod , were split between the families of the village .

Eric

[Bertrand H]

According to the book « Retour sur 33 » by Patrick Ehrhardt (same book where I find details on EF736), the author gives the posting of Lieutenant Claude Bourdier to the GR 2/33 « Savoie » from 13/5/44 to 2/10/1944. A photo of Collongue and Bourdier is page 1517 taken during a ceremony.


Bertrand