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Re: RAF night fighters on the 11/12.8.40 night
A Question for Brian who wrote:
My records show:
II./KG27 suffered the loss of the aircraft carrying Major Friedrich-Karl Schlichting (Gr.Kdr) Shot down by night fighter Hurricane of 87 Squadron flown by Plt Off Peter Comely following attack on Bristol at 00:20, all crew baled out safely, while the aircraft crashed at Sturminster Marshall, near Wimborne. Under interrogation, the prisoners stated they had left Dinard to bomb the Bristol Company’s works, but they had attacked ‘the harbour at Bristol’ instead. Four bombs were in fact dropped in the Long Ashton district about the time that the aircraft was over the city.
What is the source for Comely's claim on 11/12th? He claimed a He 111 at night on the 7th August, which is confirmed in the 87 Squadron F540 which states 'A Flight to Bilbury Farm for Night Flying duties during which P/O Comely made the Squadron’s first night flying ‘bag’, a Heinkel 111 which was confirmed.' However, the is no mention in F540 or 541 for the nights of August 11th (when he flew between 22.55 and 00.35) and 12th (23.45-0140) for a claim by Comely, and there are no BOB combat reports for him at the TNA.
Peter
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