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Re: Losses of german nightfighters - night 19/20 February 1943
Hi Marcel and Stig,
this is history in the quest for beautiful and full of contradictions.
On the one hand, the potential success of Sgt. Wilcock from 466 SQ, which possibly win a duel with a German night fighter, when most of those fights ended just exactly the opposite - I can imagine typing error in entering a loss of the crew from 5./NJG one day (is possibly to verify date of death of crew members from another source?).
On the other hand, there is still the possibility that a crew of Wellington HE 531 saw in the dark the fate of their less fortunate friends and enjoying the battle (stress, adrenaline, night, loss of a crew member or the loss of SQ 466 in the preceding weeks - January 1943 5 machines loss, night 14/15 February 1 loss and other crash landed in accidents) reported the kill of Me 110.
Thanks to both for their contributions and look forward to decipher the fragments of the air war in the night sky.
Faenor
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