His final score stood at 102, when he was shot down by a P-47 Thunderbolt near Montmédy in Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A-6 (Werknummer 470468—factory number) on 2 March 1944.
In the Franco-Prussian War Prittwitz took part in the battles of Gravelotte, Sedan - here he was wounded by a grenade - and in the conquest of Montmédy.
The king and his family were eventually arrested in the revolutionary town of Varennes, 50 km from their ultimate destination, the heavily fortified royalist citadel of Montmédy.
In 1221 the first castle of Montmédy was built on top of a hill by the Count of Chiny.
France gained Roussillon and Perpignan, Montmédy and other parts of Luxembourg, Artois and other towns in Flanders, including Arras, Béthune, Gravelines and Thionville, and a new border with Spain was fixed at the Pyrenees.
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The Montmédy sector was under the overall command of the French 2nd Army, under the command of General Charles Huntziger, which was in turn part of Army Group 2 under General André-Gaston Prételat.
She even accompanied the King and his family on a dangerous attempt to flee Paris for a royalist stronghold in Montmédy.