Don,
since I am not the owner of the "truth", but only a simple researcher working on surviving data, thus I am not in the position to deny validity to existing documents, but only to formulate guesses trying to understand why of this apparent mistake of OKL sources.
It would be interesting to know if the OKL map for the mission of 18 March is available, in which case we should obviously reformulate our opinions.
My reply assumed that it was implied the non-existence of a "Kart 44/1161" reference to that combat of the 18th. Of course if such report do exist, all should be seen in a different perspective...
In that case, my second scenario could be considered, i.e. that the scramble(s) of the 19th led to no results, and thus remained unaccounted for in Italian documents (or in most of them).
I have only one source reporting an uneventful scramble of 34 C.205s on 19 March, but such source has often proved unreliable on several occasions, so I (perhaphs erroneously) assumed that it was "business as usual"... this could instead be the time it proved true.
However, there are two further things pointing to this hypothesis, namely the detailed report of the target:
...22 Mc 205s up from Campoformido 12.13 - cE, FB 1st wave SE Klagenfurt
12 Mc 205s up from Campformido 14.45 - course not stated - o.F. ...
... the timings (we know that one of the combats of the 18th took place early in the morning, much earlier than the OKL report) and the correspondence of the number of aircraft flying. The fact that the scramble did not result in an interception would confirm the lack of reports about it.
Maybe the truth is in the middle and maybe we have found it...
