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S 82 losses
Below are a list of losses of RA S 82 transport aircraft that I would like to know which unit destroyed or damaged them. These are not mentioned in FOD or FOT.
Wikipedia: 24 June 40 1 lost resupply mission in desert Oct-Dec 40 all 114 Gruppo aircraft destroyed or damaged December 1941 6 destroyed Castelveltrano by Blenhiem (not in my notes from Malta: the hurricane years civilian I-BRAZ lost africa December 40 2 Nov 42 6 or 7 FTL Beaufighters 12 Nov 42 5 shot down Beaufighters 22 Nov 42 10 damaged Beaufighters 10 April 43 7 shotdown Destroyed on the ground ? 5 at Bennia 22 Jan 43 3 Tunisa 24 Mar 43 3 Tunisa 19 Jul 43 8 and 11 damaged Urbe and 4 and 14 damaged Ciampino, Rome area For 19 Apr 43 it has 12 shot down along with 1 S 75 and 3 G 12s while my notes from FOT have 11 shot down by 4 & 5 SAAF |
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Re: S 82 losses
In the Ali D'Italia book on the SM.82 they have some other S.82s damaged or lost that i would like more info on:
p6 one coded GS force landed in Lybia Experimental Bomber group of the 5th Squadrilia looks like the prang occured in 1940 p7 31 jul 40 MM.60277/ 608-2 malfunction of handley-page slats causes prang on take off p14 MM.60395 of 607 Squadria flying from Tripoli to Castelvetrano on 3 Feb 42 attacked by 4 Beafighters crashland at Pantelleria by Lt Vimercati with 3 killed p23 a picture of a shot up 618 squadria S.82 p24 picture of Lt Setti with 607-3 the sole survivor of a 5 plane formation who landed his plane on a Tunisian beach. He was the only non-posthumous transport pilot to get Gold Medal. The Italeri book on the S.82 has a picture of what looks like 601-12 all shot up and patched up. |
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