[Andrei Demjanko]

Stig,

It is not only Pz Gruppe identified the aircraft as Hurricane, but Regia Aeronautica pilots of 153° Gruppo CT, who were themselves based at Derna (See post #10 by Ludovico Slongo)

The ORB was complied in wartime, of course, but it is not contemporary. The example kindly provided by Gerry illustrates this very well. Under the date of 1 June we could see a brief history of the unit and its origins up to that point. It is stated that the unit was actually formed with effect from 17 March 1941, two and a half month before the first dated entry in ORB.

It seems that the person who complied the document did not have all the documents concerning the early history of the unit on hand. So first months of its existance he recorded in outline and then attempted to reconstruct chronology day by day.

You are quite right that there is no information of a pilot, who became POW on 26 September, if we presume he was not F/Lt Brown.

So I'm still convinced that the aircraft, which made force-landing at Derna on 26 September was W9116 flown by F/Lt Brown