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A Small correction for Volume 6 of A History of the Mediteranean Air War
This is a great series of books and I have drawn on them a lot for researching the men whose documents I hold. I was checking today and noticed one small error in Volume Six on page 167. The claim for a B-24 by Ofw. Martin Heinze on 23 February 1944 correctly shows him as flying with 6./ZG1 but records his aircraft as a Bf109G-6. This claim is recorded in Heinze's Flugbuch (which I have) and is remarkable for the fact that Heinze was the Bordfunker in a Bf110 (fuselage code 'D' piloted by Ofw. Alfred Gräb). Heinze records the shooting down of a Liberator with the twin MG81 machine-guns for his second claim of the war (the first was a Spitfire over Tunisia on 26 April 1943, which lines up well with British accounts). The confirmed destruction of a B-24 by a Bordfunker was surely something pretty unusual and deserves recording.
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Best wishes
Tim O.
Looking for any information or documents relating to:
Alfred Schmittka 5./KG 54; Josef Harmeling 4.(Schlacht)/LG 2; Wilhelm Gaul 1./106, 2./906 & III./KG 40; Karl-Herman Lion III./StG 1; Werner Breese 5.(F)/122
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