Records relating to an aircraft crash at St Cyr de Valorges: part one (MC 371/664, USF 14/1)
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Records relating to an aircraft crash at St Cyr de Valorges: part one
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MC 371/664, USF 14/1
1 file containing 56 papers
1944-1981
492nd Bomb Group
James J. Heddleson
Parts of this archival document (images 1 to 11, 32 and 34), as made available online, have not been published for rights issues. Enquiries regarding material not published online should be directed to the NRO in the first instance.
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Photocopies of newspaper articles (many in French), photographs, correspondence and other documents relating to an aircraft crash, 27 April 1944, at St Cyr de Valorges, France, and Heddleson's subsequent involvement with the French resistance. Includes copies of two versions of Allan A. Michie, 'Scarlet Pimpernels of the Air,' taken from 'Reader's Digest' and 'Skyways,' November, 1945; photocopies of telegrams reporting Heddleson as missing in action and about his wellbeing, with follow up letters from the Adjutant General, August 1944. Also contains correspondence relating to Heddleson's subsequent return to France, facilitated by the US Information Service, for the rededication of a memorial to the crew, 1964.