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Re: Typhoon massacre of Fw190 30 January 1944
From my book on the Fw 190:
On January 30, Fg Off Charles Demoulin of 609 Sqn was credited with the destruction of two Fw 190s in the Gisors/Roye area of France at around 1310 hrs. This camera gun shot shows a Fw 190 A trying to get away from Demoulin but to no avail. JG 2 lost a number of aircraft in that area around that time. Hauptmann Bernhard Schenkbier Staffelkapitän of 10./JG 2 was killed when his Fw 190 A-4,, Werk Nummer 470036 was shot down near Beaumont/Oise at 1250 hrs. Leutnant Willi Linnhoff of 9./JG 2 was killed in the same area in a Fw 190 A-6 Werk Nummer 530902 at 1300 hrs as was Unteroffizier Otto Fischer of 11./JG 2 who was killed flying Fw 190 A-6 Werk Nummer 551122 at 1250 hrs. Finally Hauptmann Fritz Edelmann Geschwader Adjutant of JG 2 was shot down and killed 10 km north-east of Senlis in a Fw 190 A-7/R6 Werk Nummer 430473. It should be stated that 198 Sqn also claimed nine Fw 190s destroyed, one probable and two damaged in the Rouen /Laroche area. German records state they were attacked by P-47s but all P-47 claims were either over Germany, Belgium or Holland.
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