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Re: B-17f--#42-30203 Shot Down 6 Sept 1943
Linking the downing of a B-17 to a given fighter claim is usually difficult as German claims are usually more than real losses and bombers may fall far away from the place of the actual attack (and claim).
I have 65 German claims for B-17 this day. 33 are on the way to target or in the target area, so irrelevant for your case.
On the way back over France, the bombers were attacked by Bf109s and Fw190s of JG 2, JG 26, SKG 10 (fighter bomber unit) and NAG 13 (recon unit using Bf109s). They scored 32 claims from 12h10 to 16h22 (maybe a typo for this one).
I can send you the claim list if you don't have them.
By the way the target of opportunity was not Strousburg, but Strasbourg, along the Rhine and currently in France but at the time annexated with Alsace in 1940 by Germany. The town was heavily bombed, so was probably used as an opportunity target by whole groups rather than isolated bombers. From memory 185 people were killed here but I will confirm it from my papers if you want.
Real B-17 losses for the day were 45 lost and 10 damaged beyong repair (the last number including crashes in UK), to all causes.
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