Help! French P-47 loss near Darmstadt, Germany

[Dan Gilberti]

For 1948

21/01/1948 FRIEDRISCHAFFEN ALLEMAGNE RFA SGC MARTIN P-47 D 44.33397 "E"
23/01/1948 FREIDRISCHAFFEN ALLEMAGNE RFA CNE LEMAIRE (i) P-47 D 44.20690
03/04/1948 EPPINGEN ALLEMAGNE RFA SGT CASANAVE (i) P-47 D 44.20363
20/04/1948 FRIEDRICHSHAFFEN ALLEMAGNE RFA SGC LECOCQ (i) P-47 D 44.20378
09/05/1948 THUR ALLEMAGNE SGT VAISSE (bl) P-47 D 44.20014
01/06/1948 NIEDERMENDIG ALLEMAGNE SGC RABOKOGNE (i) P-47 D 44.33769
07/06/1948 AILINGEN ALLEMAGNE RFA CNE DESHAYES (i) P-47 D 44.33405
07/06/1948 FRIEDRICHSHAFEN ALLEMAGNE RFA ADC NAVARRO (i) P-47 D 44.20018
17/06/1948 FRIEDRICHSHAFFEN ALLEMAGNE LCL STEFF (i) P-47 D 44.90039
28/06/1948 NIEDERMENDIG ALLEMAGNE RFA ADJ TIXADOR (i) P-47 D 44.33409
28/06/1948 NIEDERMENDIG ALLEMAGNE SGT ROUBAUD (i) P-47 D 44.20918
02/08/1948 GERBERHAUS ALLEMAGNE SGC SAINTE MARIE (bl) P-47 D 44.20907
03/08/1948 FRIEDRICHSHAFFEN ALLEMAGNE RFA CNE CHANEL (t) P-47 D 44.20380
17/09/1948 FRIEDRICHSHAFFEN ALLEMAGNE RFA SGC BRAZY (i) P-47 D 44.33769
28/09/1948 MENGEN ALLEMAGNE RFA ASP PROST (i) P-47 D 44.33670 "Z"
01/10/1948 MENGEN ALLEMAGNE RFA SGC MARTIN (i) P-47 D 44.20027
15/11/1948 ECKENDORF ALLEMAGNE RFA SGC EPHRITIKINE (i) P-47 D 44.89823
15/12/1948 MENGEN ALLEMAGNE CNE LORIDAN (i) P-47 D 44.490139

Killed or no
21/01/1948 FRIEDRISCHAFFEN ALLEMAGNE RFA SGC MARTIN P-47 D 44.33397 "E"
Killed
03/08/1948 FRIEDRICHSHAFFEN ALLEMAGNE RFA CNE CHANEL (t) P-47 D 44.20380

[ssg keay]

I cannot prove it is French besides what I was told from the eyewitness. He said a French recovery team came and got the pilot. It supposedly was doing combat simulations with a P-38, which could have been French or American. The actual crash-site is at Eberstadt in the woods. I found parts when I was out there with the German EOD. I know of several US crash sites near there and I am not able to exclude that this was a US P-47, but it was after the war for sure. Danny

[Khorat]

Hi Danny,
end of March 45 several P-47 coming down around Darmstadt, I recall a story of a P-47 crashing in the woods near Eberstadt after attack a ammunition store, and for the people war was over when the first US soldiers was there, so end of march the war was over in this area.
khorat

[ssg keay]

Yes, that is correct in that the US troops entered that area around the 25th of March 1944. Are you from that area? I once excavated the P-47 of MAJ Slingerland in Griesheim. Danny

[ssg keay]

Thanks for all the data you provided Dan. I am now wondering if the eye-witness had this wrong. Could the P-38 have been French and the P-47 an American? I wonder if the P-47 crashed and then the ey-witness saw the P-38 with possibly French markings flying above the crash site. Then he might have added one and one and came up with the wrong two. Danny