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Old 30th January 2023, 22:17
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Airwar over the city of Tours (France) : air attacks on 6, 7 and 25 August 1944

Bonjour,
Please, I need your help concerning all informations about Allied fighter groups missions (armed recon, sweeps etc) occured in Tours (Central France, on Loire River) and vicinity of Tours :

6 August 1944 : West of Tours :
Above all this attack :
18h30 : Attack of the Railstation and a stalled train in Langeais. Eye wtinesses spoke about Lightning P-38 …
Langeais is settled 30 kilometers West of Tours.
It was really a very important attack which gave the occasion to Allied soldiers and French fighters to escape …
Source :
http://memoiredeguerre.free.fr/convoi44/langeais.htm

7 August 1944 :
Same area and same attack …

25 August 1944 : South of Tours :
Same question about an Allied attack which occured in the morning ( ?) against 1 or 2 88 mm guns in Maillé
1 gun was destroyed.
Maillé is 45 km South of Tours.
It was also a very important attack because there German killed people and bombed also the village with heavy guns …
So it was terrible … 124 civilians were killed by German forces on that dark day (Paris was liberated in the same time …). So more casualties if this 88 was not destroyed …
Source :
https://www.maisondusouvenir.fr/mail...-nom-une-date/

Thank you very much for your assistance,

Philippe

Airwar over the city of Tours (France) : about air attacks on 6, 7 and 25 August 1944
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Old 31st January 2023, 19:42
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Re: Airwar over the city of Tours (France) : air attacks on 6, 7 and 25 August 1944

Interesting writeup on the Langeais attack:


https://www.newspapers.com/clip/117655559/the-recorder/
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/117655389/the-recorder/
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Old 31st January 2023, 21:38
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Re: Airwar over the city of Tours (France) : air attacks on 6, 7 and 25 August 1944

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Excellent ! Excellent account ! Thank you so much !!
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Old 1st February 2023, 16:13
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Re: Airwar over the city of Tours (France) : air attacks on 6, 7 and 25 August 1944

Like the very impressive work intitled « Total number of claims for each Jagdgeschwader » gathering victories for each Luftwaffe fighter units … please can I propose to every one to collect informations about each US fighter units (8th and 9th AAF) concerning theirs missions over France for 6 and 25 August 1944 : targets in the vicinity of Tours (France) ?
I saw that :
474 th FG : No mission in that area.

I will try to find a list of all American untis for Summer 1944

We say in French : « Travail de fourmis » … and in English or German or another languages … ?
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Old 1st February 2023, 20:52
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Re: Airwar over the city of Tours (France) : air attacks on 6, 7 and 25 August 1944

Phillipe contact me at: baumgartner_asv@yahoo.com.br

Adriano
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Old 1st February 2023, 22:32
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Re: Airwar over the city of Tours (France) : air attacks on 6, 7 and 25 August 1944

Not sure if this will help, during the night of 6/7, No.2 Group RAF were tasked with harassing railway routes, Tours and the area being one of several to be paid attention to. The IXth AF P-38's were tasked with operating in an area of Domfront/Sees/Dreux, and south to Loire thence west to bombline.

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Old 6th February 2023, 00:00
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Re: Airwar over the city of Tours (France) : air attacks on 6, 7 and 25 August 1944

Bonsoir Stephen,
Thank you for your information : very important! I have to chek my database on French side for this indicated period.

Merci beaucoup,
Philippe
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