[Nick Beale]

From TNA HW 5/151

CX/MSS/1581, para. 26

Scrap of report from an unspecified authority on 25/10 …Beaufighter driven off … (8) On 24/10: after convoy escort 4 Ju 88 of LG 1 landed back at Derna. Operated on 25/10 with Alfredo convoy. At 0700 hours in 23E, 3368 (B% attack by 12 … (remainder not seen).

CX/MSS/1581/T1

[On the 26th] whilst proceeding to take up escort duties, 2 Ju 88 C-6 (heavy fighters) engaged 2 Beaufighters and shot down one of them.

[Note, refers to Alfredo convoy]

CX/MSS/1581/T9

… Total operations by Fliegerkorps X on 25/10. In all, 78 sorties as follows … Escort: 6 Bf 110 on air transport escort. 6 Bf 110, 30 Ju 88, 8 He 111, 4 Ar 196 on convoy escort, see separate reports. 2 Ju 88, 1 Do 217 on night escort. Jamming operatins 2 He 111.

Aircraft shot down 4 Beaufighters for certain, 1 probably. Losses [possibly figure missing in binding of file] Ju 88 of (Roman) I./LG 1.

CX/MSS/15889/T1

Reports by SULTAN Ic on 26/10:

… 8th report: Supplements ref. 6th report of 25/10, para. 3: 4 a/c shot down by a/c of III./ZG 26. Nothing found of Ju 52 which crashed in flames.