[Chris Goss]

Not (yet) being of the older generation, are you saying that this ac was operating forward from Halton (which is, as you know, quite a distance from the sea)? If operating over the sea, this would have been very risky without some degree of fighter escort even though the daylight Jabo attacks had finished the previous month. However, I do have a record of a strafing attack by 2/JG 1 against Ludham 8 days before so there were occasional 190s still about