[phasselgren]

Good evening Martin and Michael,

The Monthly Supplementary Narrative of Operations is the “official” claims-list for Bomber Command. I checked these documents and Martin´s conclusions are confirmed.

The Narrative includes also short summaries of the combat reports which I include for the first two claims by Engbrecht.

Night 27/28 May
6 Group a/c Halifax “D” of 424 near BRUSSELS at 0218 hrs. height 8,000 ft. received a bow attack made by a ME.110. The M/U/G fired and the E/A appeared to drop off on one wing and go down in flames; a petrol tank exploding on the way down, followed by another as the E/A hit the ground. The ME.110 is claimed as destroyed.

6 Group a/c Halifax “D” of 424 near COURTRAI at 0235 hrs. height 6,000 ft. was attacked by a FW.190 from the port quarter up and broke away on the port beam. The M/U/G fired continuously and observed the E/A blow up in his sights and fall to earth. The FW.190 is claimed as destroyed.

Night 10/11 June
Claimed Me109 and Me110 destroyed

Night 12/13 August
Claimed Me210 and Me109 destroyed

Night 16/17 August
Claim made for U/I E/A probably destroyed

All night-claims for jets during this period were rejected by Bomber Command. RodM has made a research on these claims and I believe he made some comments about the claims for jet fighters on this forum.

Regards,
Peter