F-5 and F-6 losses over Yugoslavia (14-17 October 1944)

[Laurent Rizzotti]

Hello,

Do you have a precise reason to search F-5/6 losses in this precise date over Yugoslavia ? I have nothing for this time and area, only a RAF Mustang III lost on the 16th (of 213 Sqn, pilot returned some days later), but an US aircraft may be lost here in partisan or liberated territory without any trace in MACR, so only unit diaries may prove there was no loss.

An useful website if you don't know it: a list of the air losses over Yugoslavia 43-45
http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/...ses/losses.htm

[Schenck]

I didn't find mention of any recce aircraft losses in MASAAF summaries for the given dates.
There were 6 P-38 emergency landings on Vis Island runway on 14th Ocotober. On 16th October 1944, one of the HSLs operated unsuccessful search for a P-38 reported down in sea in vicinity of Vis, it might be in connection to 2 P-38s seen over Vis, one of which with one engine out, both reached Italian mainland safely.