Who knocked out the TA-38 destroyer?

[sergey]

Hi,
Colleagues,
In the Diaries SKL it is written:
On the forenoon of 9 Oct., the torpedo boat TA-38 was attacked by
five planes in the Bourtzi Passage; 3 guns have broken down.
The attack of the German torpedo boat took place in the morning of 9 October 1944 in the Gulf of Argos, Greece.
Please help me to establish which aircraft hit the TA-38 destroyer.
https://ia903200.us.archive.org/8/it...621944germ.pdf

sergey

[RSwank]

At the bottom of this page (section on torpedo boats):

https://www.world-war.co.uk/warloss_218germ.php

"TA 38 1944-10-09"
"Damaged in the Peliti Channel, near Volos, by RN aircraft 809 Squadron, HMS Stalker and possibly by mine; scuttled at Volos (39-21N 22-56E) on 13 October"

[sergey]

What other information is there that these were the planes of the 809th squadron?

[Col Bruggy]

Hello,

From David Brown's book, The Seafire:

The pressure against enemy shipping was sustained through October 9 (1944), with another 52 offensive sorties by the two carriers ("Hunter" and "Stalker"), but the two most valuable targets - a pair of merchant ships off Khalkis - had to be ignored when the torpedo boat "TA 38", formerly the Italian "Spada", was sighted heading south out of the Gulf of Salonika. As she constituted a threat to the Allied light naval forces in the Aegean, she was accorded priority for the fighter-bombers' attentions; eight aircraft of 809 Squadron ("Stalker"), supported by two flak-suppression Seafires of 807 Squadron ("Hunter"), bombed her in the Piliti Channel, claiming a direct hit and many near-misses. German records do not substantiate the hit, but the "TA 38" was stopped for a while and managed to reach Volos only with difficulty; there she was 'scuttled following air attack'. In other strikes on the 9th, 807 Squadron sank one Siebel ferry and left another 'well ablaze' off Cape Kassandra, 809 Squadron damaged two more Siebel ferries and set a large caique on fire, and a small combined force from both squadrons obtained hits on a 600-ton concrete barge off Mudros . At the end of the day, "Hunter" and "Stalker" began to withdraw.

See:
The Seafire.
Brown,David
London:Ian Allan,1973.
p.89.

Col.

[sergey]

Thank you very much!