[Pieter H]

All,

As usual the type identification (in this case by the germans) is the least reliable part of the claims during these early days of May.

So regarding these two incidents I tend to propose the following matches on May 11:

At 06.15 South of Metz at 7000 m altitude a Patrouille Haute of Bloch 152s of GC I/8 encountered Bf109's of I/JG53, that were escorting He-111 bombers of I/KG53, probably on a raid to the Metz/Toul area.
In this encounter the germans claimed three "Moranes" (which should thus be Blochs), which are the 3 Blochs No 379, 534 and 537 as mentioned by Robert. (At the same time one of the Heinkels was shot down by two Moranes of GC III/7).

At 10.15 over Toul a second encounter took place between I./JG54 and Moranes of GC I/2 (based at Toul!), in which Lt Friedrich Rumpf claimed a "Hawk". This was then almost certainly the Morane of Cne Hyvernaud.

What was now the real number of the is Morane; 1012 or 946?

Pieter