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Are we to believe these French pilots returned home and concocted this story for their own advancement? It seems unlikely.
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Are we absolutely sure that that two events in different locations and/or on diffrerent days have not become conflated? Do we have the times and map references for the two actions? From AIR 23/6510 I do have a map ref. for the He 111.
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The LW records may be all but complete but they don't give any firm details of the He111 shot down on that date either. You surmise that the losses to KG26 were Ju88 and occurred far to the north and I trust your judgement on that case because it is based on incomplete records but has a rational solution.
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KG 26 was definitely involved in the action off the Normandy beach head that night (identified by ULTRA and the Y-Service).
There is a Bundesarchiv file that should say if JGr. 200 had any loss or damage that day (RL 2-III/854) but it hasn't been digitised yet, sadly.
Losses from schools and miscellaneous units are in RL 2-III/779 (which is digitised if you want to search through it for any losses in the right general area).