Thread: RAF losses 1943
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Old 15-02-2006, 02:51 PM   #8 (permalink)
peter stuckey
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Arthur,

You will have to excuse me if I make a mess of this as it is my first time on such a site.

For your information, Chorley is wrong regarding the night fighter pilot that shot down EH889.
Oblt. Lothar Linke, IV./NJGI was actually lost in action some months before EH889. The most likely pilot is Heinz Vinke who, according to the German records was the only pilot to claim a victory at that time and position. He also claimed it as a Sterling. The similarity in names is probably the reason for the mistake in Chorley.
Heinz Vinke (54 victories) was lost in the channel in 1944, shot down by a Typhoon.

Peter
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