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Old 13th October 2013, 11:31
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Re: Mosquito loss in the Po Valley, Italy - 22 April 1945

I looked into this when I was trying to identify a kill claimed by an NSG 9 Fw 190 pilot, Werner Hensel. What I came up with was:
If it was an American aircraft then it must have been one of the three 416th NFS Mosquitoes that failed to return from a strafing mission in the dawn hours of the 22nd. Although these too are understood to have fallen to Flak and their patrol area was in Map Square F (which did not reach as far south east as Ferrara).
I also have a note of information from Alex Smart: "I have NF30's serial numbers MT482...416 NFS...MACR 14065...22/4/45 NT248...416 NFS...MACR 14064...22/4/45"

My original best guess was that it was an RAF Mosquito that Hensel had shot down (the circumstances matched fairly well) but later established that it was a P-61: see this page.
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