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Re: B-24 missions on August 21, 1942.
Nothing to be add from the official history of Italian Navy vol 7 (covering convoys to North Africa in 1941-1942). This conovy is not in the narrative and the tables at the end of the book give the same composition of escort as above (including S-41) but does not list the tanker Stige (maybe becasue it was a naval unit and not a merchant one). No details about air attacks, only that they did no damage. The convoy reached Suda in the morning of 22nd and Piraeus the next day.
The RAF part of the raid was flown by 159 Sqn RAF (see AIR 27/1060/1) that dispatched 9 B-24s, only six reaching the convy and bombing it without claiming any hit. The saw 'a Ju 88 and a Breda" but were not intercepted. Attack was reported to be between 1817 and 1832 hrs, so one hour before the US bombers if they used the same time zone.
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