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Old 9th November 2025, 11:56
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Me 262 claim of English Catalina/Canso on 31 March 1945?

http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/album....pictureid=1831

I am sorry but this is the sharpest I can make of this digitalized copy of p. 0009 found in RL 2-III/389.

My reading of it is that a claim was made through 2. Jagddivision for an English flying boat off the Isle of Juist involving three Me 262s of I./JG 7. One certain shootdown was made of a Consolidated flying boat [Catalina or Canso] on 31 March 1945.

According to Michael Balss, Deutsche Luftwaffe Losses & Claims, Part 42, 1-31 March 1945, p. 261, Ltn. Hadi Weihs of I./JG 7 claimed a "Catalina" on 31 March 1945 but it was the only claim denied that day.

Was there any loss/damage/encounter of a British Catalina/Canso on 31 March 1945?

Thank you,

Jim
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