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Old 28th December 2008, 06:28
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Re: Portsdown Hill, 6 November 1940

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Originally Posted by Andy Saunders View Post
James

I have a considerable file on the loss of Adair, Tillett and co on 6 November and I am also in contact with the family of Hubert Adair.

There is rather too much information to post here, or to answer your specific questions. However, Helmut Wick and JG 2 were certainly involved in the action. I may have imagined this, but I think I wrote an article on the episode for the magazine "FlyPast" many years ago but no idea which year/issue. Probably circa 1980/81.

Andy
there's even a Photograpth taken of the dogfight by Alexander Mckee. nov 5th-6th.40.showin Adairs Hurricane Going down.
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