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Old 24th May 2022, 11:15
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Re: Fate or information about Ju 88 D-2 coded 4U+KL from 3(F)/123

That last one almost certainly had something to do with the German operation that day against convoy ELEMENT (UGS-40) in the Med.

A possible match from my own piece this convoy (for which I didn't think of checking on 3.(F)/123):
Two or three shadowers were in contact with UGS-40 in the hour before the attack and at 20.35 the P-39s piloted by Capitaine Philippe Maurin and Lt. Linteau of GC 1/4 shot down a shadower 16 km astern of the convoy. This aircraft, the first to be picked up on radar, had been plotted 40 km north of Mount Chenoua at 20.00 hrs. It flew south until it was 8 km north of Cherchell, then turned east along the coast, flying at sea level before the plot faded at Cap Caxine. It was seen from the ground and identified as a Ju 88 making about 500 km/h.
The Flugzeug article says 4U+KL took off at 1756 (GMT+2). If the Ju 88 cruised at around 300 km/h from St. Martin-de-Craux it would be off the Algerian coast by about 1930, so the timings appear to fit.

I owe my information the French victory claim to the late Frank Olynyk.
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