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Old 11th December 2014, 14:28
Laurent Rizzotti Laurent Rizzotti is offline
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Re: RAF losses over Adriatic on 8 December 1943

Good question, I asked the same a while ago on the RAF Commands forum without any reply.

Here are the possible cases I have seen so far, and all closed:
_ a Beaufighter crew of 252 Sqn -> was lost off Cyprus.
_ a crew of 223 Sqn -> was lost over Migliano, Italy.
_ three men of 12 Sqn SAAF -> two Bostons lost to Flak over Miglianico, Italy.
_ there was no Mosquito loss.

A possible match was the P-38 42-13210 of 95th FS, 82nd FG flown by 2nd Lt Josep A Porterfield. MACR 1466.
This pilot took off with formation to escort B-24s that went to Tatoi Airdrome, Greece. Bombers and escort rendezvoued over Lecce Italy, but this pilot dropped out of formation and returned to base. Apparently fixed something and then took off again at 1007 to follow formation. He was never seen again, as he did not catch up with the formation.
But then this pilot would have been hopelessly lost to end near Hvar island.
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