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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.
Kent |
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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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Re: Geographic help May 19, 1944
can you send a screenshot of this word ?
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Re: Geographic help May 19, 1944
one guess: Kyritz
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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.
Kent |
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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.
Kent |
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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.
Kent |
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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. Last edited by RSwank; 7th July 2023 at 00:18. |
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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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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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