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Re: Combat on the 20th July 1940 over Dorset??? Was there???
Danny,
I'm very good thanks. There were also collateral losses later in the day as a direct consequence of the earlier combat:
Stab I./JG27 Messerschmitt Bf109E-1. Shot down by Hurricanes of No.501 Squadron during search mission for earlier losses and crashed in the Channel three miles north of Sark 4.15 p.m. Probably that claimed by Flight Lieutenant P. A. N. Cox and Sergeant J. H. Lacey. FF Hptmn Helmut Riegel (Gruppenkommandeur) missing. Aircraft 100% write-off.
501 Squadron, Middle Wallop
Hurricane P3082. Shot down by Lt Igor Zirkenbach of 1./JG27 in combat over the Channel off Cherbourg 4.30 p.m. Pilot Officer Edmund John Hillary Sylvester missing. Aircraft lost.
SeenotflugKdo. 4 Heinkel He59C-2 (0838). Abandoned by crew while being shepherded towards the English coast by of Green Section of No.238 Squadron (F/O Hubbard, P/O Grier, and P/O Doulton) during search mission for missing 3./JG27 pilots three miles off Cherbourg 7.20 p.m. FF Fw Herbert Degel baled out but killed, BO Fw Gustav Luppe, BF Gefr John-Werner Rosenthal, and BM Hptgefr Peter Filz all baled out and missing. Aircraft D-AKAR 100% write-off.
The crew baled out too low for their parachutes to deploy. The body of Herbert Degel was washed ashore at Mers-les-Bains, Le Tréport, on August 20.
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