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Originally Posted by Evgeny Velichko
So gents, underline is:
4.6.40:
6./ZG1 lost 1 Bf110C, Uffz. Albert Killermann/Uffz. Gotfried Wohl both killed by Swiss Bf109D.
In return, II./ZG1 pilots shot down Bf109D (J-310) from Fliegerkompanie 15.
8.6.40:
Around 12:00 II./ZG1 pilots bounced C-35 of FK1 and shot it down.
Then, a hour later, II./ZG1 was attacked from above, and lost 4 Bf110:
Fw. Otto Beiter(KiA)/Ogefr. Robert Hink(WiA)
Uffz. Alois Scholz(KiA)/Ogefr. Walter Hofmann (KiA)
Fw. Manfred Dahne(WiA)/Ogefr. Herbert Klinke (WiA)
Oblt. Gerhard Kadow (StaKa)(WiA)/Uffz. Fritz Wonnicke (KiA)
In return, they shot down Bf109D (J-328 ) from FK15 and heavy damaged Bf109D from FK21, piloted by Oblt. Borner.
Does any SWISS pilots claims are known?
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Zdrastvitie Evgeny,
Bf 110 C, 4. /ZG 1, Fw. Otto Beiter(KiA)/Ogefr. Robert Hink(WiA), shot down by Oblt Kuhn, Fl Kp 15. Fw Beitner managed to nurse his stricken Bf 110 back over the French Jura mountains before losing control and crashing to his death at Sépois-les-Bas (F), his Bordfunker managing to escape at the last moment with his parachute.
Bf 110 C, 4. /ZG 1, Uffz. Alois Scholz(KiA)/Ogefr. Walter Hofmann (KiA), shot down by Oblt Streiff, Fl Kp 21, at Triengen, 12.55. Ogefr Hoffmann actually managed to jump out of the falling Bf 110, but his parachute opened to early and snagged itself in the tailplane, draging him thus to his death.
Bf 110 C, 6. /ZG 1, Oblt. Gerhard Kadow (StaKa)(WiA)/Uffz. Fritz Wonnicke (KiA) was shot down by Fl Kp 15 and crash landed in Morteau (F). Uffz Wonnicke died instantly during combat from a direct head shot.
Bf 110 C-1, W.Nr. 2831, 2N+GN, Fw. Manfred Dahne(WiA)/Ogefr. Herbert Klinke (WiA), shot down by Fl Kp 15 and Flab Det 80 (a 7,5 cm AA gun unit) and crash landed in Oberkirch/Nunningen.
Source: Hoch, (G.), Die Messerschmitt Me 109 in der schweizer Flugwaffe - ein Stück Zeitgeschichte - Verlag Hoch, Payerne, 1999, p. 108 - 113.
Cheers
Marc