Bf110 losses on 15 Oct 1940

[John Vasco]

Originally Posted by Richard Reeves

Thanks John,
I'm wondering if a loss may have been recorded on the wrong date, maybe the day following. I did reply but it never appeared (I'm not sure why) however three different sources excluding the combat reports, record a Bf110 being shot down in Christchurch Bay, 1 mile E of Hengistbury head to be precise. It would be useful to know if ZG26 were flying a mission on the 15th of October 1940 in conjunction with JG2. Do you know if such records survive?

No Bf 110s were lost over southern England on 14th, 16th & 17th October 1940.

I don't know how experienced you are with regard to research, but if you have done decades of research as I have done (and also Chris Goss), you will come to realise that what is claimed, and what actually happened, are in a lot of cases quite at odds with each other, and there is no way of reasoning out why. And for researchers, sometimes, there is absolutely no explanation, short of human error or outright lying (and it is unfortunate to say this, but it DID occur).