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1st January 2016, 14:53
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1942-08-14: U-205 rescued 5 airmen of a Savoia-Marchetti SM.79
U-205 (Kptlt Franz-Georg Reschke) rescued five airmen of a Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 from a rubber dinghy in M.Qu. CJ 7591 (approx. 37°45'N, 08°34'E, about 20 miles north-west of Galite Islands, Tunisia) at 1820hrs on 14 August 1942. The survivors stated that they had been shot down shortly after noon on 12 August.
1942-08-12, 109° Gruppo, SM.79, ? Shot down in aerial combat, loss 100% (shot down by two FAA fighters while attacking the British battleship HMS NELSON in the "Pedestal" convoy to Malta) Maggiore Zanardi, Alfredo, survived (commanding officer 109° Gruppo) 4 unknown crewmen survived (one of them lightly injured) Bordfunker Sergente Maggiore Rombola, Pasquale, + 
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