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Originally Posted by Nick Beale
11 May? There was a major German operation against convoy UGS-40 that night.
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Hello Nick,
Not to sidetrack the thread, but can you confirm how many German aircraft were lost that night? You wrote in
Kampfflieger Volume Four that "Three I./KG 77 aircraft were missing from the first attacking group; from the second, III./KG 77 emerged minus five of its Ju 88s and I./ZG 1 also lost a Ju 88 C. In the third element, no fewer than seven aircraft of III./KG 26 were lost, five of them flown by crews on their first operation." That would make a total of 16 aircraft lost, but you also mentioned that a shadower had been shot down earlier by French Airacobras, so were there other aircraft losses?
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Kind regards,
Dan