Colleagues.
There is information that at the beginning of the Allied air raid on a German convoy north of Crete on February 22, 1944, four B-25G bombers from the USAAF's 379th Squadron distracted Bf-109 fighters, allowing British Beaufighters to successfully attack the ship "Lisa."
https://57thbombwing.com/379th_History/History14.pdf
However, there is also information that German fighters shot down three attacking Beaufighters from 227 Squadron .
https://aviationarchaeology.gr/wp-co...1941-19464.pdf
Please help me determine how many German aircraft defended the convoy and how they operated.
Sergey