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"Interior section of Hispano-Suiza airplane engine at Bois-Colombe, near Paris, requisitioned by Daimler Benz during Nazi occupation to turn out engines and make repairs on the Luftwaffe's motors. Hit heavily by American Flying Fortresses of the 8th AF on 3 and 15 Sept 43 and again on 31 Dec 43 this vital factory was so badly damaged that subsequent repairs had still not enabled it to recover more than a fraction of its former activity by the time American troops reached Paris in Sept 44. Photo shows 68 newly repaired engines for Me109 figthers cased and ready to be shipped to the Luftwaffe depot at Chartres but abandoned by the Germans in their hasty exit from Paris."

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