Hello everyone, I’m a italian freelance researcher . In the past I have done research on a German plane crashed in Corsaglia Valley (http://storieefoto.blogspot.it/2013/02/laereo-di-fontane-uno-junker-188-in-val.html)
I’m doing research on a fighter shot down in World War II .
I believe it was a British or USAF airplane.
Unfortunately I have very few information , I just know that it happened in the period to mid-summer 1944 .
The town where this plane crashed is Villanova Mondovi in the province of Cuneo.
These are the coordinates of the area of impact 44°22’10.07″N 7°45’23.92″E
From the stories of some partisans who at the time occupied the valleys the pilot parachuted out of a nearby village and was rescued . Was not captured by Nazzi or fascist troops
I know they were removed from the plane two machine guns and the partisans tried to use them but failed . They were too damaged .
Unfortunately I doubt that it could be an English plane since I do not know for what reason was there .
Probably it was an action against the airport near Mondovi or railway lines, I found that there were bombing missions of Ceva , Mondovi , Lesegno , Turin . I have not found the mission in mid 1944 in which a fighter crashed around mondovì .
By: claudio82clod - 10th April 2015 at 23:21
Thanks to Nick Beale I have the list of Allied missions on 20 and 21 August.
the list goes from 19 to 19 the next day . But what’s the time zone?
http://www.archeologidellaria.org/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=4059.0;attach=24207;image
By: claudio82clod - 1st April 2015 at 21:00
I found the little book that talks about this event .
I also found a newspaper article of the 90 that interview a veteran.
From this article the exact date would be August 20, 1944, RAF’s airplane.
The pilot could be Scottish William Mc Clelland.
Unfortunately, on this last part I did not certainties.
By: critter592 - 1st April 2015 at 03:16
Hello Claudio,
Have you visited the crash site of this aircraft? If so, is there wreckage present?
Assuming that wreckage is present, most parts will have some numbers on them; if those numbers are from airframe parts it should be possible to identify the type.
A very interesting story about the Ju.188 in Val Corsaglia. Lots of good, identifiable parts too. 🙂
Don
By: claudio82clod - 31st March 2015 at 13:30
Hello everyone.
Today I had some news from an old partisan .
Unfortunately the help you gave me does not fit with his tale .
I also found a number of articles on a local weekly written after the war that confirm his story .
The plane we are looking rushed in October 1944 and was certainly English.
There is a database similar to macr for england ?
Thank you so much again .
Claudio
By: claudio82clod - 20th March 2015 at 12:52
Thanks also to other forums I found this MACR 8772.
I do not know whether it is possible that a plane with the engine on fire arrivals gliding from saluzzo to mondovì .
By: claudio82clod - 20th March 2015 at 12:50
Thank you very much , I’ll try that too.
By: skyskooter - 18th March 2015 at 20:03
Try contacting Nick Beale who was a co-author of Air War Italy. His website is here http://www.ghostbombers.com/
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