Me 109 loss on June 21 1944 near Brunswick and Bernoske

[Laurent Rizzotti]

I continues to read the book and found two other strafings on the 24th:

around 13h00 (German time) 16 P-51 strafed Semallé airfield, near Alençon (N of Angers, more or less in the direction of England from Angers) and destroyed in a few minutes 15 Fw190 from II/JG 1. Apparently the old base of this Gruppe, the nearby airfield of Essay was also strafed the smae day and one ground radio was fatally wounded there.

The II/JG 53 was now based around Angers on campain fields amenaged at Briollay, Tiercé and Soucelles. The last one was hit twice in the morning and another time in late afternoon by US fighter-bombers. Two Bf109G of 6./JG 53 were destroyed, a part of the fuel stocks burned and several soldiers were wounded.