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Re: He 111 lost 8th August 1942 near Isle of Wight

The Home Office Key Points reports w/e 0900hrs 12-8-1942 show attacks by day :-

5th - Yeovil attacked slight damage to Westland Aircraft Ltd

6th - Truro lightly attacked

7th - Bodmin - some damage reported

8th - Slough attacked without effect, other incidents in Hampshire, Dorset Essex and Northumberland (KG2 book shows a Do217 on an early morning Recon. but no losses )

11th - Deal attacked considerable damage to railway station and slight damage to railway at Salisbury.

'Luftwaffe Fighter Bombers over Britain' by Chris Goss details some of these attacks.

KG54 lost a Ju88 on the 8th targeted to Southend on Sea but this is likely to have fallen to 29 Sqd. at 2240hrs. A Me210 of 16/KG6 is reported as fallen to Flak off the East Coast on the 9th both crewmen missing. The Luft. QM's returns does not offer a ready loss to link to the claim by AA ( unless there is a late entry for an aircraft that returned damaged) and as far as I know no POW's taken to indicate a loss on the 8th.

The III/KG53 lost severel He111's in night attacks against the UK from 29th July to 9th.August. Is there a chance one of their aircraft was on a bad-weather daylight attack on the 8th (see KG53 book page 203), was engaged by AA but got back safe.

Re: He 111 lost 8th August 1942 near Isle of Wight

Thanks very much Brian for the additional info. I'm working on the basis that the E/A was most likely damaged.

Now where would I check if any Luftwaffe personnel had been taken prisoner on 8th August 1942 in the UK?

Re: He 111 lost 8th August 1942 near Isle of Wight

If any aircrew had been taken POW, this would have been noted either in the German Quartermaster General's Returns, Namentliche Verlustemeldung or RAF 'K' Reports. I believe that if anyone had been taken POW, this would have been passed to you already. If an aircraft was damaged, it should have been noted in the Returns; I believe that none were recorded. Another case of over-zealous claiming? I wonder if there was the likelihood of friendly fire?