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I confirm : This is a marking (2 crossed chemist cornulas) that had been placed on 4 Lightnings of the Reconnaissance Group 2/33 which participtaed to Operation Shingle, the landing at Anzio in January 1944. The paint was a special paint that reacted to contact with the combat gases that the...

Thank you ; You must be right . If we invert my picture, we have what must be the aluminium manufacturer logo. The Upper part must be an A for Aluminium, and the lower part 2 Ws for Walz and Werk. Again, thank you. The enigma is solved. Best regards

May 27, 1944. Gerardmer

Crashed on May 27, 1944

Hello, Does anyone has an idea of what this small drawing ( about 3 centimeters) of symbolised birds is supposed to represent ? This drawing is on a metalic part of a Bf-109 that crashed in the Vosges mountains, in France, in May 1944. "Possibly" an 8./JG3 aircraft. Could it be a manufactuer...

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I just read a page dedicated to the "Causes of heavy bomber damage in 8th air force" for January to may 1944. We can read that 83,7 % of the damages were due to Flak, 4,5% to 20 mmm shells, .2% was due to fire from friendly aircraft...and so on ... and that 1.4 % was "self-inflicted" damage...

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I have a report of an 8th Air Force raisd where a P-51 was lost - Cat "E". Does anyone know what this Cat "E" means ? Regards

End of mai 1944, for raids with targets in Germany, the Bomb Groups provided 12 bombers per Squadron, that is a total of 36 aircraft per Bomb Group. How many aircraft a Figther Group was supposed to provide at that time ? Thank you.

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When a B-17 was badly hit during a bomb raid, and had diffculties to follow her Combat Box, the pilot would drop the bombs in emergnecy to ligthen his ship. If the pilot was killed right away in a frontal atttack for instance, who else would be in a position to do it ; the copilot, I guess, and...

Thank you very much, eagle Dad Regards