histoire d'une forteresse volante abbattue à Saint-Colomban, près de Nantes, le 4 juillet 1943
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BESSON MEMORIAL
1943 - 2004
July 3,4,5, 2004
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B17 HISTORY
# 42-5053
briefing
crash on July 4, 1943
in St-Colomban
Focke Wulf
into grand-lieu lake
B17 CREWMEMBERS
10 young
american boys
B17 technical
WITNESS
french
Ralph D. McKee
(his escape)
Pilot escape
crewmembers
families
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
thanks to
RESEARCH
american families
report
french witness

Marcel Biret
"I hid a paratrooper in Loterie"
I was in my village of Loterie (a hamlet in St Philbert de Grand Lieu 25 km south of Nantes), while I saw a paratrooper come down. With Célestin DUGAST...

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Danièle Lecorre
"he would bring me a big doll as tall as me"
I can remember that Ralph McKee the navigator, arrived at the house in Basse-Indre during the day. He was accompanied by dad (Jean LIGONDAY) and Félix GUYOT...

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Jean Chataigner
"He confides in me that he has taken in a recently-landed American"
Since December 1940, I had also been part of a resistance movement called the "Front National Etudiant". I was 17 years old at the time. On April 1943...

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Paul Guibert
"I can remember the arrival of this paratrooper at the farm"
It 's my brother who found a paratrooper, folding his parachute, close to my parents' farm in the hamlet of Villeda. I can remember the arrival of this paratrooper at the farm...

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Note
by Didier Giraudeau