418 Sqn Ranger over Denmark, 14 April 1944

[Laurent Rizzotti]

In the afternoon of 14 April 1944 two Mosquitoes of 418 Sqn flown by Sqn Ldr R A Kipp and Flg Off J T Caine flew a Ranger to Denmark. They reported meeting four Ju 52s minesweeping over Kattegat and claimed all four shot down, then strafed the nearby airfield, claiming three aircraft in flames and two more damaged.

According to a Luftwaffe loss list (http://www.rafandluftwaffe.info/) actually two Ju 52s of MSGr 1 were shot down. Soren Flensted's website about the air war over Denmark describes them in detail.

The same loss list then says that the attacked airfield was Kastrup, near Kobenhavn, and there Blindflugschule 34 lost four aircraft destroyed (two Ju 52, a Ju 88 and a Si 204) and two damaged. But this list gives no Wnr and no damaged percentage for this loss.

The loss list for Luftwaffe school units still exist up to September 1944, so the details of these ground losses should be available. Can one of the forum members having extensive loss databases provide them to me ?

Thanks in advance

Laurent