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Re: Loss of British aircraft off the island of Kos 1943
Beaufighters
46 "Uganda" Sqn:
JL903/N Shot down by fighters, Kos 3.10.43.
JM238 Shot down by flak, Kos 3.10.43.
JM264/G Shot down 3.10.43.
JL907 Also quoted sometimes as missing near Kos 3.10.43 (either 27.9.43, I think that's correct date).
227 Sqn:
JL760/B Shot down near Kos 3.10.43. Also qouted sometimes as JF760 and, as in one of the above posts and 227 Sqn's orb for that day, JM760.
On 14 Sep 1 Beaufighter landed on Antimachia with a wireless team, and 6 Spits (7 Sqn SAAF) and 3 Dakotas (216 Sqn RAF) landed also. Luftwaffe attacked on 16 Sep, and again on 17 Sep with more sucess, some aircraft destroyed on the ground.
Some sources say that 22 Dakotas were used, some only 8 Dakotas (these 8 were used to drop paratroops). 216 Sqn RAF detached Dakotas from Ramat David, 5 were destroyed on the ground, and one ended in the sea.
Zoran
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