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Re: Luftwaffe planes shot down by NZ ace - can you help?
18° Gruppo Caccia Terrestre lost three CR.42 on 11 november 1940 during
a combat against RAF fighter while escorting with 40 fighters 10 BR.20M of the 99° Gruppo B.T. (target: Harwich harbour).
Serg. Enzo Panichi (83a Sq.) crashed in the sea with CR.42 MM 6978 and died.
Serg. Magg. Antonio Lazzari (85a Sq.) (CR.42 MM 6976 85-16) and Serg. Pietro Salvadori (95a Sq.) (CR.42 MM 5701 95-13) made emergency landing near Corton and Orfordness respect. Lazzari fighter was destroyed and Salvadori one is now at RAF Museum.Both became POW.
(source: "Bombe Italiane sull'Inghilterra" by Giovanni Massimello, article in the magazine Storia Militare, january 2005).
Pietro Salvadori died on 7 april 1953 with a F-84G Thunderjet while serving with 51a Aerobrigata.
Gianandrea Bussi
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