RAF Fighter Command losses book?
 

Can anyone tell me what the best book is to buy for all the RAF Fighter Command losses? Would you advice me Norman L.R. Franks books?

In the meantime, I'm looking for Spitfire losses on 9,10 and 11 August 1943.

Thanks!

Re: RAF Fighter Command losses book?
 

09.08.1943
BS290 IX 421S 16-6-43 Engine cut abandoned 15m NW of Calais 9-8-43 FH118 F/O R T Heeney baled out but killed
BS302 IX Collided with BS457 nr Montreuil 9-8-43 FH363
BS441 IX disintegrated in high speed dive Jacobs Farm Maldon Essex 9-8-43 FH315.45
BS457 IX Collided with BS302 nr Montreuil 9-8-43 FH328.10 F/O L A Kondracki killed

10.08.1943
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11.08.1943
MB775 PRXIT 4282 CHA M63 FF 6-5-43 Benson 12-5-43 1OADU 31-5-43 682S NWAfrica Ran out of fuel and engine cut in circuit crashlanded LaMarsa FACB 11-8-43

Re: RAF Fighter Command losses book?
 

Thanks FrankieS! However the one I'm searching for is not in this list. Perhaps it could be a Tempest?

Anyway, I just ordered the three volumes from Norman L.R. Franks, won't be a waist of money. ;-)

Re: RAF Fighter Command losses book?
 

Not in August 1943 ... Tempest entered service January 44, first ops April 44.

Re: RAF Fighter Command losses book?
 

Hmmm, ok, thanks Chris, however I was to say Typhoon... My bad! Then I have to check my books for any USAAF losses on these days or else the eye-witness I spoke has mixed up some things. He spoke about a Spitfire, so I have to check any kind of fighterplane.

Re: RAF Fighter Command losses book?
 

Only Typhoon lost on those days was OV-V JP533, shot down by flak near Ghent on 11 August, Plt Off G.S.M.Pearson was killed.

Re: RAF Fighter Command losses book?
 

Hi Gents ,
Perhaps this can help :

12/08/1943
Aarsele near Gent in Belgium
Typhoon IB
1145hrs
Rhubarb
JP-533
197Sqn
OV-V
Tangmere
F/O Pearson George Sholto ( KIA ) 127030
Buried at Aarsele
They attacked the train Kortrijk-Rijsel ( Courtrai – Lille ) in french and the stationdepot , hit by Flak.

Happy New Year
Alain57

Re: RAF Fighter Command losses book?
 

Thanks guys, unfortunately all of them are not close to the spot the man pointed out. He must have mistaken another accident (I think A.J. Shirm, 29 July 1942) with this one (an unknown airman who washed ashore on 10 August 1943 and he saw a Spitfire crash the day before just before the coast).