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Old 9th May 2008, 07:53
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Re: Sicily August 11th (?) 1943

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Originally Posted by NickM View Post
Well now...looks like Andrew beat me to it! I checked my rather dog eared copy of Brian Cull's 'Spitfires over Sicily' & it restates more or less the same info: II/SKG10: on August 10 they lost 3 Fws to US Spits & One to a SAAF Spit; on August 11 they lost another 3--two to US Spits & one to flak.
Nick,

D'Este didn't mention an air component so I never checked my copy of Cull. Did a quick mental check if I had something, thought of Hammel and Air war Europa, but dismissed it as an Air source as well.

That's the problem with too much info

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