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Niels, Thank you for your summary. Very helpful. Do you know whether, as a general rule, each flak battalion had its own radar capabilities?...

Hans and Pat, It does appear the first few seconds of the video in post #1 are of the 323rd exiting Normandy. There appears to be a group of...

Pat, Yes, the concussions of the bombs cracked the Plexiglass Windows of the Marauders and tossed them about like rag dolls at such low...

Hi, Pat, Studying your excellent period map, Rue de Arquette and Rue de Jacob and one othe road all converge just South of the Orne at what I...

Hi, Pat, I was slightly thrown off by the French accounts, which place the 323rd in the St. Julian Quarter on the other side of the Orne. I...

Pat, The 9th AF Orders seems to designate C-1 and C-2, so based on the map with the C points designated the aiming point must be close to the...

Hi, Pat, Looking closely at the CP-provided stills, the aircraft's serial number ends in 708, meaning it can only be The Gremlin II....

Hi, Pat, A very Happy Easter to you. I trust the Easter Bunny found his way to the Curran household. I am still working through your logic...

Hi, Hans, Thanks. Would you please designate due North on the strike photos? I need accurate directional quadrants to compare the points of...

Hello, Most of this footage is of 323rd BG missions flown from Earls Colne Airfield, Essex County, England. It should be fairly straightforward...

Thank you, Pat. I've ordered both books and look forward to reading them. The work that you do would make a very good television series....

Pat, Thank you for your valid and considered perspective. The choices available and decisions made in war can't often be fairly judged in...

Pat and Sean, Thank you. This is indeed the June 6 Caen RJ mission flown by the 323rd. It's the strike photo that was mislabeled at Naitonal...

Pat, Check your mail. Just sent you the strike photo of Caen June 6. It was misfiled at National Archives with Clecy June 7. They had Clecy as...

Pat, it's 18.5 nautical miles from Mezidon to the center of Caen. If my calculations are correct, if the aircraft were traveling at 200...

Hi, Par, That is good to know. I'm not sure how much photoshop could do with some of these documents. The print is almost blacked out in some...

Pat, There were two missions to Caen in the afternoon. The first was flown by the 323rd ---involved 36 A/C to a Road Junction in Caen. The...

Hi, Pat, Trevor may have gotten the route from the orders for the mission. I will run that down. Based on what " Tex" recalled and on...