Hello,
for some time I'm trying to establish the number of planes downed by ships of Royal Navy during Dieppe Raid. As far as I know allied ships claimed at least 24 planes downed. Sadly I was able to identify only some of them, namely:
4 by Ślązak (Polish)
2 by LCF.6
1 by SGB.8 & SGB.9
but I'm missing all the other claims - maybe someone can help me with this one?
Completely other story is verification of those claims. To do that I've started to gather the data for German losses and British claims. After finishing my job I discovered that there are some discrepancies among the data which I would like to share with you and ask for help. What I have been able to identify one can find in this file -
http://www.bartelski.pl/crolick/stuff/Dieppe.xls
In the 1979 edition of
Greatest Air Battle: Dieppe, 19th August 1942 by Franks it is stated that Luftwaffe have lost 48 planes (23 fighters and 25 bombers) but I was able to figure out 24 or so fighters and only 18 bombers (for details see the file).
Also RAF fighters claims 96 destroyed planes but according to Tony Wood's list there are only 89 claims and the numbers of the different types of planes (like FW.190, Do.217 etc) do not match each other (one can easily compare it by downloading my file) - why is it so?
Furthermore in Frank's book it was stated that 97 British planes were lost while again from Tony's lists it appeared that at least 108 were lost!
I have found also information that 5 or 6 own planes were downed by allied ships. Apart of the one Blenheim which Steve59 attribute to Ślązak (BTW I do not agree that Ślązak claimed one enemy bomber way earlier then any Luftwaffe bomber was in the vicinity. The claim is from 09.52 CET while first claims of British fighters for Do.217 comes from 09.40 CET so it is possible that this was Do.217 likewise that it was Blenheim) what other planes were shot down by allied ships?!
I'm mostly interested in the planes lost over the sea or ones which crashed on land and reported damage from the naval AA fire.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Andrzej