Italians in Tunisia - Skalski's comments

[SteveB]

Franek

Shores etc in "Fighters over Tunisia" record:

During the day 145 Squadron flew several missions at unrecorded times. On the first of these five Polish pilots gave top cover to 417 Squadron; over Grombalia at 14,000 feet two Bf109s were seen 2,000 feet above. The Poles made a climbing turn as the 109s dived, but FO Wszowski's aircraft was hit and went down in a spin trailing black smoke. Later six Polish Spitfires covered 417 Squadron and some Kittyhawks over Soliman, this time seeing ten Bf109s which had a height advantage of 6,000 feet, but no combat took place. On a third mission, again over Grombalia, FO Arct attacked an MC 202 at 16,000 feet, and saw it going down vertically trailing smoke and debris. He then blacked out and was unable to confirm its destruction so was awarded only a probable.

Not much help?

Steve