Luftwaffe Losses in the Dodecanese Islands in 1943

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When I was living on Rhodes I talked to a local who described an action between Spitfires and a JU 52 off the southern end of the island, at Plimiri, which resulted in the Junkers crashing in to the ocean. The man was the caretaker at the local church, where he claimed some of the German victims were buried. This would have been during September, 1943. I also did some digging around the old Italian barracks there, and found a lot of evidence of fighting between the former allies.