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U-955
Posted by: Metman ()
Date: July 15, 2010 01:37PM

Back in 2005 there was a brief discussion concerning the identity of the aircraft that U-955 claimed to have shot down on 5 May 1944. The advice given then was that the aircraft was a Sunderland of 201 Squadron piloted by Flt/Lt L H Baveystock (http://ubootwaffe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=477).

I'm afraid that advice was unfounded; Baveystock survived the war and was actually the pilot of the 201 Sqn Sunderland that SANK U-955 during the early hours of 7 June 1944 (K Wynn; U-boat Operations of the Second World War: Vol 2)

Although I'm still searching I've been unable to any record of an RAF loss over the Atlantic on 5 May. I'm wondering if U-955's claim either referred to an action in which an RAF aircraft was damaged, but returned to base (probably in Iceland), or an American aircraft.

Brian

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