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21st January 2006, 20:52
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Re: Huge Luftwaffe Victories over USAAF?
After some research in the Macr database I come up with 10 474th P-38's lost on 25 August.. but I have determined that there are 2 mi9ssing MACR's for the 355th so we know it is not 100% reliable, so it could be 11 as you say or a 38 went down after the encounter and was 'not missing' per se.
Still 13 for the 1st FG on June 10 seems to be number 1 on the USAAF bad day for one group if all were due to fighters (probable)... and maybe 20 for combined 82/1 FG might be overall 'worst day' air to air for the USAAF in war for one general combat engagement in any theatre. It would also reflect the overall consistent quality of Luftwaffe in the Balkans in a time when most of the Luftwaffe leaders had been lost fighting the 8th AF in October 43-May 1944 timeframe... strictly speculation.. 
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