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Old 5th March 2011, 23:30
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Re: A ?? RE: Allied flak coverage in Tunisia...

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Originally Posted by Mark R. View Post
. The worst US loss to strafing German fighters (that I have found so far) occurred in early February 1943 when all of the howitzers and prime movers of C Battery, 33d FA were destroyed by strafing Bf-109s. I believe there were early M-15s (water cooled .50 cals x 2 and 1x 37mm cannon combined mount) involved in the Tunisian campaign. No quad 50s yet.
Interesting; this gives rise to a couple of questions for me:

first of all what exactly were the losses; and any idea as to what JG or SKG or SchG unit was the attacker?

thx

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