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(code here)Mission Date: 11th August 1940
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Aerodrome: Marquise East
Pilot Status: KIA / OK
Aircraft Status: Lost / Damaged
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Time Place Aircraft Opponent Confirmed - - - - -
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Mission Date: 11th August 1940
Name: Pitti
Rank: Major
Unit: Stab II./JG26
Aircraft: Bf 109 E-3
Markings: << + -
Aerodrome: Marquise East
Pilot Status: OK
Aircraft Status: OK, RTB
Victory Claims:
| Time | Place | Aircraft | Opponent | Confirmed |
| 0845 | Channel, Dover | Spitfire | - | yes (MarLeo) |
The mission was designated as a feint bomb raid. Only few 110s carried bombs. The main goal was to get the RAF into the air so that we can shoot them down.
At 0816 I took off together with the 6th Staffel. Unterfoffizier MarLeo was flying as my wingman. At 0825 I spotted the 110s near Maqruise, flying at 3km. A bit too early and thus the 4th Staffel was still in the take off process and couldn't catch up with the 110s in time.
The 5th Staffel was flying on the left flank and the 6th on the right of the Zerstörer. At 0830 we arrived over Dover. No sign of the RAF. The 110s splitted up and started to circle the Dover - Folkestone - Deal area. So did we. I gave the "Freie Jagd" order to all my pilots.
A few minutes later, while flying near Folkestone at 5km altitude, I spotted a squadron of Spitfires crossing us about 1500m below over the coast from Dover to Folkestone.
We dived into attack and I scored very good hits in the cockpit area on one of them. The pilot must have been injured, if not killed, but I hadn't time to watch if the Spitfire went down. So just a probable kill.
I instantly climbed up after the attack and joined up with MarLeo again. I looked down and saw that the Spitfires were scattered all around and some of them tried to get behind us.
We decided to disengage a bit towards mid channel to get back into a good attack position. This shook all but one of the Spitfires off of us. This one Spitfire was following us in about 800m distance. I climbed up and order MarLeo to hold course. The poor Spitfire pilot must have been a rookie since he kept on following MarLeo. I dived onto his six o'clock and gave it a full burst of my guns. The Spitfire started to stream liquid and one of its elevators was gone. MarLeo did an attack as well and I followed with my second attack on which I killed his engine. He was flying too low to be able to reach the coast with a dead engine so we left him alone. This happened at 0845 south of Dover over the channel. This victory is confirmed by MarLeo.
We regained altitude and attacked several Spitfires and Hurricanes in the Dover area during the next 10 minutes. Where I caused damage to at least to two more Spitfires.
At about 0900 I gave the order to return to base. So we set course towards France. But found out that mid channel about 3 to 5 enemy fighters had waited for us.
They tried to get shots on us but they weren't able to catch us.
When we arrived at the French coast I heard several of my pilots calling for help since they get under attack from these enemies as well. So MarLeo and me headed back to help them out. We found a 109 with water radiator damage that was surrounded by 5 Hurricanes. We went into attack. I heavily damaged one of them. That made them turn home and so did we.
I landed back at Marquise East at 0910. My 109 was undamaged.
