Luftwaffe Losses Arnhem Area 29th Sept 1944

[Laurent Rizzotti]

By the way here is III./JG 4 loss list for 29 September 1944 in Mombeek's French version (different from what you wrote above):

Fhr Dieter Fricke 10./JG 4 Bf 109 G-6 (441909) Air battle in Arnhem area MIA

Gefr Lorenz Grüner 11./JG 4 Bf 109 G-14 (462686) Air battle near KleveKIA

Uffz Karl Rüther 11./JG 4 Bf 109 G-14 (461477) Air battle at Keeken/Kleve

But also two other Bf 109 G-6 listed as 100% losses due to air battles, with no pilot (so probably unhurt).

Last losses seem to contradict the text for 16 September 1944, that says that 16 aircraft and their pilots were lost.

the Luftwaffe losses summary database has for that day:
_ 5 aircraft destroyed for III./JG 4 (3 missing, 2 shot down by aircraft)
_ 3 aircraft destroyed for II./JG 27 (1 missing, 2 shot down by aircraft)
_ nothing for I./JG 76, but if we believe Mombeek it lost 8 pilots, so with the above losses we have the total of 16.