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Re: 3./NJG 2 Ju 88 Malta 12 May 1942
Andy
You mean Aces High (New Edition) from 1994.
Aces High Vol 2 is the book with updates/corrections to the new edition published in 1999. It does not have 320 pages....
Unfortunately I don't have the other source you quote, but page 321 under point a) says this claim has variously been recorded as either a probable or a damaged so unless this "Air Battle Malta" is more recent I would go with Aces High (no correction 1999)
What is interesting is that this claim you relate to is not listed in Shores/Cull/Malizia's "Malta the Spitfire Year 1942 (from 1991). Instead another claim is stated to have been made by P/O Daniel and Sgt Walsh shortly after 22.00H on the 12th.
Since I take it P/O Daniel refers to Edward Gough Daniel, who was at Malta at the time, he is not listed in Aces High as having scored anything on the 12th, I then presume the Spitfire Year contains an error, and the claim made on the 12th was actually done by Hayton, possibly using a radar operator named Walsh (if so it was not his usual r/o)
One reason for the mistake, may have been that both Daniel and Hayton shared the same aircraft X7750 (see correction in Aces High Vol 2)
In the earlier book, the Spitfire Year, this Ju 88 is claimed as shot down in flames, but regardless of that the officials must have downgraded this claim to either a probable or damaged. If the conclusion is correct in Aces High, the Ju 88 was in fact really lost by the Germans.
Cheers
Stig
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