Spitfire brought down by Royal Artillery - Normandy.

[cheesey]

Thanks chaps.

Frank's book does include 2 TAF losses and there are many losses attributable to 'Flak' both enemy and friendly. I wonder if the RA battery was perhaps an AA battery and not 25pdr ? After the passage of some 30 years Capt.Roberts may have mistaken the batteries function.

He mentions in a previous entry that it seemed that whenever 146 Ambulance set up shop an RA unit would also set up nearby ! The gunners claimed that it was because they wouldn't have very far to cart the wounded should they be hit but I suspect it may have been for a more practical reason.

Considering that the medics would lay out a 40' x 40' Red Cross marker within the field hospital and Capt. Roberts claimed they were never attacked during the course of the war in NW Europe then maybe this was the safest place to be should the dirt hit the fan !

Brian, do you have details of the RN Spitfire loss you mentioned ?

Anyway, thanks for the input so far.