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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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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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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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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.
Stephen |
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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 |