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Old 31st January 2012, 12:18
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Re: Mc202s in Dodecanese Oct/Nov 1943?

In case of hypothesis of ANR aircraft, this is even more out of question.

Apart from torpedo-bomber S.79s operating from Greece in July-August 1944 and of Transport S.81s operating in North-East Europe in the Spring-Summer of 1944, no other ANR aircraft ever operated outside Italy and beyond the area South of the Apennines dividing Tuscany and Emilia Romagna (a couple shuttle missions to/from Austria were made together with the Luftwaffe in the spring of 1944).

Some damaged and inefficient planes could have been left behind by the Regia Aeronautica after the Armistice in former airfields, which could account for the strafed ones.

The rest is wrong ID by Allied Pilots (they even identified Fiat G.50s over Lake Balaton instead of Rumanian IAR 80/81s...).
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