16th April 1943 - Mediterranean Spit losses

[Adriano Baumgartner]

Hello Marco!
Thanks again for clarifying the Air Combats over the Desert on that day!
I first thought that JG 77 had claimed 4 Spits ( from your first post here ). Now you clarified that possibly ER502 was shot down on another combat, much later, which brings new light to the combat I am researching.
W/C Gleed´s service number is RAFO 37800. He was promoted F/L on 3 September 1940; got the DFC on 13 September the same year and was promoted S/L on the 1 September 1941. I do not got his promotion to full Wing Commander and actually do guess he was Acting Wing Commander. ( Will check later ).
By the way, he was OC of 244 Wing and I read somewhere that:
1- He was homosexual ( is that information correct ?)
2- That there was an OC of 244 Wing who was later killed ( but I did not find anything about him ) named W/C Jack Darwin. Does anybody have heard about him?
Thanks a lot for the help. By the way Marco, any clues against which Luftwaffe or Italian Squadron that 111 Squadron pilot faced on his last combat? ( 7 PM )
Yours
Adriano