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Originally Posted by Leendert
"almost daredevillish, steep dive"
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Ju88 was the only German type operating over the North Sea at the time capable to perform something of a kind
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Originally Posted by robert
... the ship would be sank by He 111 of II./KG26:
German report states that at 18.50 hrs a French fishing ship was attacked in LQ 05E/4872 and hit with one SD50 bomb.
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Robert, do you have further details? As far as I know on 20 March both I./KG 26 and II./KG 26 operated against British convoys between Norway and Britain far to the north. British naval trawler
Windermere was damaged by bomb north of Kinnaird Head in this action. I've translated the page below using google, so, if I'm not mistaken, it gives the location as 51N
http://www.scheveningen-haven.nl/inf...ijst=50&af=IJM
I know that single aircraft of KGr 100 and KG 26 sometimes operated over the area around 51N in March, and French nationality of a trawler under attack could be a clue. Interestingly, and to complicate matters further, it shows the date of loss as 20 March, but says the crew was rescued six days later, which, knowing the date of the rescue was 25, means the loss was on 19 March