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Re: Shot down pilots over Greece
According to :
Air war for Yugoslavia, Greece and Crete - Christopher Shores, Brian Cull and Nicola Malizia, 1987 Grub Street, London, ISBN 0-948817-07-0
P. 231-232
Hurricanes of no. 33 Squadron vs Bf109Es of 8/JG27 over the Rupel Pass on 6 April 1941.
33 Squadron claimed 5 without losses while 8/JG27 lost four aircraft and a fifth crash-landed.
Oberleutnant Arno Becker (StaKa) was killed in "Black 2".
Leutnant Klaus Faber baled out and became POW.
Ofw Gerhard Fromming was wounded and crash-landed his badly damaged "Black 8".
An unnamed pilot baled out of "Black 6" and returned on foot.
No info about the fifth casualty.
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