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Re: Luftwaffe Kills in Tunisia Compared to Recorded USAAF P-38 losses
Mark,
That is excellent work, and thank you for doing it. I have had a huge interest in the P-38 units engaged in the Tunisian campaign for a long time. I noted your first posts of about a month ago or more but at the time I had a child in hospital and am only lately catching up on various posts now that matters are happily fine again. I hope to respond in greater detail at some point - it may take weeks or even more !
However I cannot resist one question. Do you have the names of the Italian pilots who claimed the P-38s ?
Also I would slightly quibble with the liberal use of F-1, F-15, etc for the P-38 losses listed. Apart from the dire lack of detailed records I would venture that no F-15s or Gs were in N. Africa until the 82nd FG arrived and they came with a mixture of late model Fs and early Gs. This is an entire subject in itself as I expect you will agree !
Keep up the great work.
Regards,
Martin Gleeson.
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