Eagle Days: Life and Death for the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain

[John Vasco]

Originally Posted by Nick Beale

I know the problem and have used something on the lines of, “… but the author has been unable to any German record of a corresponding loss”.

Things have eased somewhat on the issue I mentioned, with the relative part of the Luftflotte 3 KTB becoming available to confirm what we had known, and the additional information in the 'Battle of Britain Combat Archive' series, which shows the combat was exclusively with II./JG 53 Bf 109s.

[Chris Goss]

...and only Hptm Heinz Bretnütz of 6./JG 53 claimed two Hurricanes one immediately after the other in that general location and at the right time during this encounter..........