[Nick Beale]

No Luftwaffe fighter units remained in Italy after the first third of September but there was the Italian Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana. I've got nothing on them for 6 November but they were up on the 5th and engaged the 320th BG. The ANR's IIº Gruppo Caccia (= Second Fighter Group) shot down two B-26s and badly damaged another which crashed into the sea later. Bomber gunners damaged three Bf 109s which made emergency landings (one pilot wounded).

Allied pilots over Italy frequently reported all kinds of aircraft opposing them that weren't actually there. There were no Macchi 202s still in service; there were Fw 190s but engaged in night bombing, and air sea rescue patrols over the Adriatic. So Fw 190s are possible but tackling bombers isn't what they were supposed to be doing. The ANR fighter units by this time were exclusively Bf 109-equipped.