Where are these areas?

[Xerumbe]

Hi!

I'm working on the daily reports of some US units in the south of France in 1944. Some areas are described in code and i fail to find them.

T2070
T2556
G-6 Aire Crape (sic)
T0477
N9019
T0524

Can you help me to identify these areas ?

Thanx

[Nick Beale]

THis should help: http://www.echodelta.net/mbs/eng-welcome.php

[Xerumbe]

Thank you Nick.

But i think something is wrong with my research. The areas given using the website "echo delta.net" don't match with the area of combats.

For an exemple: area T0524 is for a combat describe as : "Lt Littlewood (316th fighter sqn) shot down a Me 109 (16h10), august 29th 1944."
The website aera translator gives something near "Les Chanoines" airbase ... So, i think there was no Luftwaffe action over this place this day. The combat front is 80 km south of Lyon.

The USAF document I have read says that the area T0524 is north west of Lyon.

Maybe there is another coded tracking system?

[Nick Beale]

Are you using the right grid? It looks like you may need to try France Lambert Zone 3 rather than Zone 2.

P.S. There was definitely no Luftwaffe action in the area of Les Chanoines on 29 August, everything that could fly had left a week or more earlier.

I've written about 29 August action on my website: http://www.ghostbombers.com/recon/109/Kaatsch/kaatsch4.html and made a map as well: http://www.ghostbombers.com/recon/10...kaatscha1.html

If you have any more about the combats in my web article I'd be really interested to hear about it.

[RSwank]

Nick, don't you have that "backwards". On the map on the link you gave, you have:

Item B Ofw. Beller shot down August 29. It appears that the location was NNE of Lyon.

Using Lambert Zone 2, with wT0524 gives (via the co-ordinate translator) a location that seems a good match.

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by RSwank

Nick, don't you have that "backwards".

Very possibly!

[Xerumbe]

You're right.

T2070 T2556 T0477 N9019 -> Lambert 3
T0524 -> Lambert 2

@Nick: When I know more about the events that occurred in these areas, I will tell you.

Thank you.