Fortunately, some helpful person has transcribed the ORB:

http://orb.polishaf.pl/unit/315sqn

May have been before November 1944 – they went up to Peterhead at that point. Unless, of course, the pic is post-war and it’s a German machine in the U.K. (?)

The Australian National Archives has a copy of Sinden’s casualty file, though it’s not been digitised. These *sometimes* have statements from local residents re: time, though not always.

http://www.naa.gov.au

Search on JB221 seems to bring it up.

A big captured French flying boat was sunk by P-51s in the Baltic – Potez-CAMS 161.

Some sources say it was sunk on Lake Constance along with one of the SE 200s and a Latecoere 631, however I believe that is an error.

I think the big Bv replacement for the 222 (was it the 338?) had a single tail.

No doubt about the B-17 but wasn’t that twin-engined aircraft being shot-down at 3:35 a Mosquito? :confused:

Sadly, I’d say yes. NS522, a 140 Squadron machine, is described in Shores & Thomas’ “2nd Tactical Air Force” books as having been shot down on 6 October 1944 by P-51s of the 4th FG, who claimed an Me 410 near Helgoland.

The crew of F/L A.E. Palmer and F/S D. Gardner were both killed.

That’s the second-time I’ve heard of 3-stage superchargers on 109s, and the first for this unit.

I know that Mosquitos of the USAAF’s 416th NFS flew at least one daylight strafing operation in Northern Italy in April 1945, though the sorties I know about were all in the Po Valley, about 100km away.

Thanks for the link Bob.

Is the cataloguing complete now, or is there more to come?

A lot of the CGI looks like “tochy”‘s old stuff.

Maybe a film producer finally put him to good use.