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Re: Identity of three Ju 88 shot down by 198 Sqn Typhoons 13 January 1944?
On the combat report 4 pilots shared a claim for an Arado 96 ( originally identified as a Me 108) this crash landed St.Cyr-En-Arthies aircraft was strafed and set on fire . Ar 96 4489 of JG 105 Uffz Edwin Tappert killed ?
F/L Dall states two baled out from his claim aircraft crashed in open country west of St.Leger possily the aircraft of Uffz Schüley ? (Horn gives by Mere 14 km south of Jumeauville)
F/O MacDondald was about to make a third pass at his when it just cleared a cliff on the north bank of the Seine and then crashed and broke upon a plateau north of La Roche Guyon . He noted if had the number 348 on the fin
F/O Plamondon states his crashed in flames by a country lane 3 miles east of Septeuil with Blue 4 filming the wreckage - Uffz Müller ? ( Horn gives 6 km S/E of Jumeauville)
As NVMs are often the only source of 1944 losses perhaps the crew of MacDonald's victim survived thus no NVM with the aircraft reported in the now absent GQM for 1944 . Had a job trying to tie up the locations on Google Earth I guess the locations on the combat report must be given some leeway being identified from aircraft cockpits in combat . If the combat reports are correct then Horn's report of the Ju 88 at Bretigny cannot be one of the 3 above
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