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Re: Luftwaffe Losses for the 5th August 1944 ?
As I said above, outside of the battles between 8th Air Force and the Luftwaffe over Germany, there was also air battles between 9th Air Force and Luftwaffe over France, that are not covered by Caldwell's book.
In the book "La Luftwaffe face au débarquement allié", seven losses are listed for Luftwaffe over France this day:
1 of 9./JG 77 (attached to I./JG 1) and 1 of I./JG 1
2 of 9./JG 1 (by the way I did a typo above, I should have written 2 losses of III./JG 1)
1 of 3./JG 2
1 of 7./JG 3 (possibly shot down by two P-47s of 48th FG that claimed a Bf 109 shared between them)
1 of 2./JG 54, that was attached to III./JG 54 (the last one was not listed in my first post, as it was either shown in the summary as a I./JG 54 loss, the main body of the Gruppe being on the Eastern Front, or as a III./JG 54 loss, but without enemy action. The text in the book says that it was lost in a battle against P-51s)
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