[Andrei Demjanko]

Gerry,

Many thanks for your very detailed and informative reply!

To sum it up:

There are several German and Italian reports of a force-landing of Hurricane on 26 September 1941

The aircraft of this type (Hurricane) could only be of 2 PRU. (And, thanks to information from ORB, provided by Gerry, we now know this could only be W9116)

The date F/Lt Brown was awarded the DFC is 26 September 1941

Against this we have ORB of 2 PRU which gives the date as 2 October (This date also mentioned in one Italian press release)

It is also interesting that new Hurricane was collected from 103 MU on 29 September (to replace the earlier loss of another one?)

Could it be that ORB of 2 PRU is not contemporary and reconstructed some time after the events? So the date when unit learned of F/Lt Brown's capture was recorded as the date of his loss? I know I'm on too thin ice now. But there are no other options for a loss on 26 September.