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14th March 2008, 01:50
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Montecorvino Airfield, Italy
The book The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1945 by Rick Atkinson claims that on 9 September 1943, when Allied divisions landed at Salerno, British forces advanced to the Montecorvino airfield, three miles from the beach, and surprised Luftwaffe units there and machine-gunned German pilots running to their aircraft and then going on to destroy around 36 German aircraft parked there. There is no indication of the type of aircraft claimed or the unit(s) stationed there. Is there any confirmation of such claims in Luftwaffe records?
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