[Russell]

Hello everyone

The Mediterranean Air War team are finalizing Vol 4 which we are intending to hand over to the publisher next week.

Help is requested as to the following losses on which we have no details, they are almost all Fi 156.

20 May 43 Fi 156 Sardinia
15 July 43 Hs 129 Agrigento We have no 2 eng German or Italian a/c being lost this date
16 July 43 Fi 156 Italy, shot down by an A-36. Am aware of one lost on the ground, but none in the air.
4 Sept 43 Fi 156 at Cancello by a P-38
9 Sept Fi 156 E Valantino by an A-36
10 Sept Fi 156 Auletta by a Spitfire
13 Sept Fi 156 Potenza area by a A-36
24 Oct s/e biplane – with a rear gunner Lake Bracciano, or Lake Bolsenna by an A-36
31 Oct Fi 156 Albanian coast by a P-38
19 Nov 43 A Fi 156 Storch with two German NCO’s aboard deserted and landed at Ras el Hillal where the occupants were captured.
2 Dec 43 Two Fi 156 near Sulmona by Spitfires
4 Jan 44 He 111 and Go 242 SE Kivolak by a P-38
29 Jan 44 a/c identified as a Storch, but known loss was a Saiman 202 of 6/JG 77 for which no other claims are relevant.
6 Feb 44 Fi 156 E of Vignanello by an A-36 early morning. Later in the afternoon 1 Fi 156, 1 HS 126 and 2 HS 123 claimed at Malignano a/f by 52nd FG.
7 Feb 4 Hs 126, the losses by LLG 1.
15th Feb 44 Italian biplane Viterbo a/f by a Spitfire
22 May 44 Fi 156 Bo Krupa by a Spitfire.

Thanks in anticipation

Russell