SCW Miguel Guerrero García claims

[GMichalski]

Hi,

i found these claims of Guerrero
but in don´t know if were confirmed , probables, shared...
also interesting for me were the enemy losses...

1 23/07/1936 1 Ni-H.52 Destroyed Ni-H.52
2 25/07/1936 1 Dornier J Wal Destroyed Ni-H.52
3 29/07/1936 1 Vickers Vildebeest Destroyed Ni-H.52
4 31/07/1936 1 Breguet XIX Destroyed Ni-H.52
Prob ¿14/08/1936? 1 Enemy aircraft Probably destroyed Ni-H.52
? 12/06/1937 R-5 Destroyed? CR.32 Huesca
? 16/06/1937 1 A-101 ¿? Destroyed? CR.32 Huesca
? 15/07/1937 1 R-Z Destroyed? CR.32 Brunete
? 30/12/1937 I-16 Probably destroyed CR.32 Teruel, Puerto Escandon

? 24/01/1938 1 I-16 Destroyed? CR.32 Teruel
? 12/03/1938 afternoon 1 I-15 Destroyed CR.32 Híjar
29/07/1938 I-15 Destroyed? CR.32 Castuera
? 12/08/1938 I-15 Destroyed? CR.32 Zarza-Capilla, Cabeza del Buey



many thanks,
regards

[GuerraCivil]

Interestingly an "Nieuport-Hispano" ace - I do not know if there were other pilots of either side who made it an ace with 5 or more claims with the "obsolete" Ni-H. 52.

Before the foreign supplies started to flow for both sides of SCW, the Nieuport-Hispano 52´s were the only fighters in Spanish sky and both sides scored their first air victories with these fighters of 1920´s design.

Of Guerreros claims (with Ni-H. 52) I found following info:

25.7.1936 CASA-Dornier Wal was shot down over Gibraltar straits.

27.7.1936 floatplane Savoia 62 Nr. 12 was bombing Algeciras, when Guerrero attacked it and forced it to escape and land in Gibraltar, where the Republican floatplane was interned during the rest of war (=practically a air victory eliminating the enemy plane from further action during the rest of war)

29.7.1936 Vickers Vildebeest (of naval air unit of Iznajar) was shot down near Iznalloz (Granada province).

31.7.1937 Breguet XIX was also shot down near Iznalloz.

The source: http://www.texanflight.com/images/Sp...an_article.pdf

[GMichalski]

Hi,

many thanks for your info, i have:

12/06/1937 R-5 Destroyed? CR.32 Huesca 2 Claims for one R-5 Papagayo lost, other claim by Morato confirmed, shared?...

(Morato claim was confirmed, Guerrero claim was Prob? Conf? Shared?....

16/06/1937 1 A-101 ¿? Destroyed? CR.32 Huesca Misindentification because the A-101 began operations in august!! Only lost this day was 1 R-5

15/07/1937 1 R-Z Destroyed? CR.32 Brunete Claimed 3 R-Z and losses seems were 0!!


24/01/1938 1 I-16 Destroyed? CR.32 Teruel 5 claims against 2ª? and 5ª Escuadrilla, one plane landed out of place (no info of damage), Arias plane damaged with 42 impacts and I-16 of García? Badly damaged and irreparable

12/03/1938 afternoon 1 I-15 Destroyed CR.32 Híjar 1-E-3 2-G-3 claimed 7 I-15s, 1 probable and 1 damaged and 1 SB destroyed without losses. Republican losses were: 2 I-15 shot down CA-034 Ramon Llorente & Aradin CA-057, 2 landed and recovered ca-040 Mora , ca-018 Piner also lost I-16 Antonio Arias bail out. Pilot seen to bail out by Guerrero. Wreck captured by Nacionalists shot down by García Pardo.


regards