AMERICANS PRESS TO OUTSKIRTS OF CHERBOURG; JAPANESE FLEET SIGHTED, BATTLE MAY DEVELOP (6/21/44)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 6/21/44 | Drew Middleton, Harold Denny, E.C. Daniel, George F. Horne, Bosley Crowther, Hanson W. Baldwin, more

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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[fso301]

Pasted the link over in Google Chrome and saw it there. At least I can see the river in that picture.

Hopefully you can match up the river with a map. Judging by the shadows the time appeared to be about midday. If I had to make a wild guess, I'd say the plane was heading more or less West -> East when struck.

[fso301]

I was speaking of the outboard section of the left wing. Doesn’t match any of the other wing surfaces.

May have battle damage repair by removing the skin from a B-17 that wouldn't be needing it any longer.

[PAR35]

Google Earth isn’t much help. May spend some time trying to match it up to some maps here:

http://www.alt-berlin.info/pages/index.htm

I still think the Brandenburg gate is near the upper right of that picture, and would say the plane is moving on roughly a north/south line, probably south to north. I’ve been using the enlarged image to try to spot some detail.

[GeronL]

That looks bad but one never knows if it hit or not by looking at the pic