Braving the Eurostar and a terrible Parisian heatwave (36C/95F), the Luftwaffe blog recently spent three days at Le Bourget (Paris air show) and (thus far) four days at the ECPA-D in Ivry -sur-Seine. Today (Thursday 26/06) the ECPA-D was closed to visitors for a staff team-building day. I decided to go and see the 'Appel du 18 Juin 1940' exhibition at the National Archives instead and also caught the (relatively) new 'Museum of the liberation of Paris' at Place Denfert Rochereau. Later on I browsed some of the pictures I'd come across at the ECPA-D so far. As usual at Ivry there are new personnel - including a new 'directrice' of the 'Médiathèque'- and new rules and regs. Be aware perhaps that visitors are no longer 'allowed' to retrieve the photo albums directly from the shelves but have to 'request' that they be brought to the reading room. Which is all good if you know that they exist. This is probably what happens most places elsewhere of course, although I've always enjoyed the relaxed attitudes at the ECPA-D. A neat 'find' so far on this trip has been some 'new' von Werra pics from his time in Russia as Kommandeur of I./JG 53 - over three 'DAA' files there is a full 'reportage' showing the ace posing with a downed Rata along with a couple of nice views of his Friedrich being refuelled...
More 'von Werra' on the ECPA-D website here