Some P-40 Story

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[Sokol1]

This RN Leon(e) Pancaldo destroyer was sunk two times.

 

"The first time was sunk in 10-June-1940, in the port of Augusta (Sicily), hit by a torpedo launched by a Fairey Swordfish took off from the aircraft carrier "HMS Eagle", they died sixteen crew men, but rested on a shallow water and was recovered and rebuilt.

The second time in the 30-April-1943, while it is sailing along with the German Destroyers "Ermes", two miles off Cape Bon (Tunisia), after intense fighting hit by aircraft bombs of P40 belonging to RSAAF and USAAF units."

 

http://conlapelleappesaaunchiodo.blogspot.com.br/2014/03/leone-pancaldo.html

 

Accord the above link the aerial "Bf 109GxP-40" in that episode result in claims:

 

Allied: 3 Bf 109

Axis: 1 Spit (?), 3 P-40

 

"Confirmed kills":

 

1 Bf 109

1 P-40 - two other fall after midair collision.

 

Seem that famous Luftwaffe "superiority" fail.

Edited March 19, 2017 by Sokol1