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Daring Mission

MajorMagee

MajorMagee

SOH-CM-2022
May 10, 1939

A daring escapade ended in tradegy today when French brothers Jean and Xavier Oettil were killed in the crash of a Bf 110 fighter, which they had stolen from the Messerschmitt factory. They escaped from germany, but lost their way and crashed in thick fog near Villers-sous-Chalamont. French officials will still welcome the chance to examine the wrecked fighter.
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That's a story I'd never seen before.
 
Yes it's a pre-war news story documented in one of Bill Gunston's books.

I can also see this story around a few places on the Internet en francais but they don't have any additional detail.

Coincidentally it was exactly 2 years later to the day that Rudolph Hess flew a Bf110 to Scotland.
 
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