LW losses 18 June 1944 Montpellier-Nimes

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by keith A

GCII/5 state in the Journal de Marche of the 4th Escadre that they encountered six Bf109 on that date, if not JGr. 200 then who?
Keith

There was no other Bf 109 fighter unit in southern France then and any Bf 109s of the former Jagdgruppe Süd not embodied into JGr. 200 should already have been pulled out although you can never rule out the odd straggler, of course.

There's no mention of any encounter with Bf 109s in the source I quoted in my first post which was the Mediterranean Allied Tactical Air Forces Daily Intelligence/Operations summary (TNA AIR 23/6510). Nor is HW 41/87, "MAAF Signal Int. Service, Enemy Air Activity, June 1944–Feb. 1945" any help and there is no ULTRA decrypt relating to JGr. 200 operations that day.

Jochen Prien conformed to me from the Luftwaffe Führungsstab daily sitrep that the 12 Bf 109s scrambled on the 18th did not contact the enemy.

So somebody's wrong, apparently but who?