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14th March 2009, 21:51
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Any recorded victory by a Me 163 on 14th January 1945?
Good night!
While searching the site Spitfire.co.uk I came around a PR machine that was reported being shot down by a Me 163 on the 14th January 1945! I tried to find out any match but got no joy yet. Any knews or claims submitted by JG 400 or Ek 16 on that day? There was a JG 1 claim that could match the PR Spitfire loss on that day... Thanks Adriano 
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14th March 2009, 22:07
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Re: Any recorded victory by a Me 163 on 14th January 1945?
F/L J.M. Coldwell-Horsfall 16 Sqn POW 14Jan45 flying a Spitfire PR.XI (PL853), supposedly shotdown by a Me 163 of JG 400 but I don't know of any corresponding Luftwaffe claim.
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14th March 2009, 22:15
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Re: Any recorded victory by a Me 163 on 14th January 1945?
Hello Andy!
I do remember a former 544 Squadron's Navigator telling me he was shot down by some 6 Me 163 Komets or Me 262 ( he remembered they were jets and a lot of them! ) on 18th July 1944....only to find out that he was indeed shot down by Oblt Kurt Gabler from JG 300 on a Bf 109 G-6! Memory can indeed play tricks... In this case, it seems there is NO corresponding claim by a Me 163 unit...The only book I do have is far away, back at home and I will give a look as soon as I arrive. Thanks again for your answer and help. Adriano Baumgartner PS: By the way, have you started?
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14th March 2009, 22:25
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Re: Any recorded victory by a Me 163 on 14th January 1945?
No mention of any claims on that day in "Me163, volume 1" by S.Ransom and H-H Cammann [Midland, 2006]...
cheers Peter D Evans LEMB Administrator
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