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Re: 8 October 1940 - Daylight raid on London
At this date it will probably be high altitude Jabo (fighter-bombers).
No details given in the Blitz then and now, except that a Bf 109 of 4./JG 52 was shot down at 0925 hrs, but on a "free-lance sortie" (sweep?), so not a "bomber ". A Ju 88 of 4.KG 51 was shot down at 1120 hrs during a bombing sortie to London. Still the book says "it is believed that all the attacks in force were made by Me 109s" (probably citing a British wartime report)
The JG 26 war diary book by Caldwell confirms that JG 26 was escorting Jabo this morning.
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