[Brian Bines]

Matti many thanks for the information I thought from the mention of drop tanks that they were from a recon. unit .

Stig the best I have from the 242 Sqd. Operations book is that 12 aircraft took off from Poretta Lucciana Corsica as escort to B-25s attacking railway targets at Terni . On the return flight approacing the coast near Albinia the two 109s were first spotted chased northwards and dispatched .

Place names from the Operation Book are difficult to read but that is the best I can make out - see PRO AIR 27-1472-27 . As far as I could see 242 operated from Corsica and then France in 1944 before being disbanded .

Regards
Brian Bines