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Italian FW190's?
On August 16th, 1943, Norwegian ace Svein Heglund encountered several FW190's over France near the Calais-Boulogne coastline (or in that general area). The Norwegian sqn gave chase. According to Heglund, who had extremely good eyesight, saw 2 FW's breaking away from the rest. Both had Italian markings and Heglund shot down one, 331 Sqn's 100th victory. Pieces broke off the FW, hitting Heglund's prop spinner. Throughout his life, he maintained with certainty that they had Italian markings, and that the rest of the German formation had standard German markings. What can this have been? I have absolutely no knowledge of any Italian FW190's. Could they have been 2 Italians trained by Germans in order to equip the Italian Air Force with FW's?
Stein
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