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Old 6th July 2023, 15:48
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Geographic help May 19, 1944

On this date, a two-ship flight of the 380th Fighter Squadron escorted a straggling B-17 to a location I cannot decipher, where the B-17 was picked up by some P-38's. The town/city or general area appears to be Kim????tx but it is so unclear I cannot be certain of anything. The two P-51 pilots then proceeded on towards Kiel and the original mission was a withdrawal support from the Berlin area. Does anyone have a possible name for this location? I have tried various combinations of the letters, tried doing a Google Map hunt tracing from Kiel back towards Berlin, all with no luck. Thank you.

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Old 6th July 2023, 19:12
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Re: Geographic help May 19, 1944

Try the gazetteer at https://www.meyersgaz.org/

search on Kim* or Kin*t* and see what you get

It is good for German towns and villages
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Old 6th July 2023, 20:50
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Re: Geographic help May 19, 1944

can you send a screenshot of this word ?
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Old 6th July 2023, 20:52
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Re: Geographic help May 19, 1944

one guess: Kyritz
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Old 6th July 2023, 21:14
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Re: Geographic help May 19, 1944

Thanks for the leads, I will follow up on the link for possible towns. As for Kyritz, I think it may be too far off the track for the pilots to end up at Kiel to make landfall but will not rule it out. I am not very tech savvy, unfortunately, and will have to figure out how to get the page in question off a flash drive and into a format to get posted here.

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Old 6th July 2023, 21:44
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Re: Geographic help May 19, 1944

I went back and did further manipulation of the document and it looks like it says RIBNITZ, which throws my original message way off. Sorry about that. I now have to figure out if there is another Ribnitz between Berlin and Kiel, as all I find on the link provided by MW Giles, google and google maps is Ribnitz-Damgarten, which is way too far to the NW of Berlin.

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Old 7th July 2023, 00:28
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Re: Geographic help May 19, 1944

Yet another gaff--guess my age is really showing. I meant NE of Berlin for Ribnitz-Damgarten.

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Old 7th July 2023, 00:44
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Re: Geographic help May 19, 1944

Kemnitz???
https://www.google.com/maps/place/17...z45b?entry=ttu

Maybe they were trying to make it to Sweden.

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Old 7th July 2023, 00:45
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Re: Geographic help May 19, 1944

two Ribnitz in Germany, but I guess the first one is the mentioned one:

https://www.meyersgaz.org/place/20591055

https://www.meyersgaz.org/place/20591056
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Old 7th July 2023, 01:36
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Re: Geographic help May 19, 1944

I believe it is the first one mentioned in the link, as that would be more in line with going west towards Kiel. Thank you to everyone for their help.

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