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Re: Ju 88 A-5 WNr 2400 of II./KG 30
It is highly unlikely that HMS COTTESMORE had anything to do with the loss of this Ju88 as the destroyer was in the English Channel on that day.
HMS COTTESMORE was escorting the convoy CW-37 (coastal convoy with 20 merchants from Southend to Yarmouth, Isle of Wight), which was repeatedly attacked by dive bombers between 0005 and 0340 hrs off Dover on 7 June 1941. The destroyer claimed one aircraft shot down at 0110 and another was claimed by HS ML-113 at 0215 hrs. The balloon barrage vessel HMS ROEBUCK was slightly damaged by a near miss, no damage to the merchant ships.
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