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Re: Luftwaffe fighters stalking B-17's back to Britain
This is probably a reference to an intruder mission on 22 April 1944. I haven't heard evidence of the Germans using Allied codes or the English language, though.
The US 8th AF bombed the marshalling yards at Hamm and returned in darkness. The 2nd Bomb Div’s B-24s were followed home over East Anglia by the II./KG 51's Me 410s. They shot down or forced to crash land 14 Liberators and an RAF Albemarle. The Germans had two losses including their Gruppenkommandeur, Maj. Dietrich Puttfarken.
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