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Just a little update on the topic.

I phoned to my old friend Achille Vigna and - out of the blue - asked him about the info he published in his book on 1999.

As usual, his reply was fully honest: he had reported on paper the oral memories of an old pilot friend of his (by now deceased) and that there are no other sources to support those.

At this point, after having asked to be updated if something more should turn out, there is little one could do, except for one thing:

In his book - page 116 - Vigna reports that "...the C.202s of 154° Gruppo escorted (betweeen November and December 1943) the Ju 88s of II./KG 54 and of II./KG 6 as well as the Ju 87s of I./St.G. 3 in missions against British convoys..."

It would be great to ask to the people in this forum if there are traces of such event in the diaries/memories/documents of those units... but this will be the object of a separate post.

P.S. concering the two photographs quoted, one was described by Vigna to me as being published also on a monography of the C.202 and, following this clue, the only one which could be is one already positively identified and located in one of Luftwaffe fighter schools in Orange, thus not being at all related to the unit in the Aegean. I've not yet been able to have a look at the other, so I suspend any opinion until then.