Hi Dan, thanks for these 🙂 – how about passing them over to Steve Brew ? I will check the background hangar with a Belgian contact to see if it matches up to anything at Schaffen/Diest, especially as they came from Terry and he had left 41 before the moved to Volkel, on detachment to 122 Wing as top cover, at the end of January ’45. The rifles one could be taken at Ophoven – Dad says that when he moved there at the end of December ’44 – just before Bodenplatte – the area was packed with Allied armour because of the “Bulge” and they were always on the lookout for German saboteurs. cheers – Allan

According to my father, it could be the hangar at Y-32 Ophoven. As a kid he went there almost every day, he lived in the neigbourhood of the field and his parents owned a piece of land at the airfield. He once had the opportunity to visit this hangar.
In “Thunder Monsters over Europe”, book of Reginald G. Nolte about 405th fighter group you can find a picture of the hangar at Y-32.

Karel