UK National Archives: RAF Wing and Squadron Operations Record Books and pilots’ sortie reports; daily intelligence/operations summaries of the Mediterranean Allied Tactical Air Force and Mediterranean Allied Coastal Air Force; Ultra decrypts for February, March and April 1944; MAAF Signals Intelligence material; prisoner of war interrogation reports.
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Loss data for I./JG 2 via Ferdinando D’Amico.
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Other Luftwaffe claim and loss data from J. Richard Smith and Eddie J. Creek; Winfried Bock and Arno Abendroth via Ferdinando D’Amico.
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Information on USAAF claims and losses; on the loss of an Auster of No. 655 Squadron; and the crash-landing of 4./JG 2's Oblnt. Schneider kindly contributed by Christopher Shores from his own extensive researches into the Mediterranean Air War.
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Listings of USAAF Missing Air Crew Reports: http://www.armyairforces.com/dbmacr.asp
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Online USAAF MACRs at http://www.footnote.com
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Tony Wood’s listings of accredited Luftwaffe victory claims: http://lesbutler.co.uk/claims/tonywood.htm
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321st Bombardment Group operational diary: http://www.warwingsart.com/12thAirForce/321history.html
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Extract from the Flugbuch of Ofw. Fritz Hartmann from Phil Irwin.
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Extract from the Flugbuch of Uffz. Walter Sauder from Erik Mombeeck.
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Extracts from the 347th Fighter Squadron USAAF, Outline History, April 1944 via Ferdinando D’Amico.
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Ernest R. McDowell and William N. Hess: Checkertail Clan: The 325th Fighter Group in North Africa and Italy by (Aero Publishers, 1969).
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Jochen Prien: Chronik des Jagdgeschwaders 53 Teil 3 (Stuve Druck, Eutin, 1991) and Chronik des Jagdgeschwaders 77 Teil IV (Stuve Druck, Eutin, 1995).
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Christopher Shores: USAAF Fighter Units MTO 1942–45 (Osprey Publishing Ltd., 1978).
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Carlo D’Este, Fatal Decision: Anzio and the Battle for Rome (Fontana, 1992).
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Tom Ivie and Paul Ludwig: Spitfires And Yellow Tail Mustangs: The 52nd Fighter Group in World War Two (Hikoki Publications Ltd., Crowborough, 2005) ISBN 1 902109 43 0.
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Andrew Thomas: American Spitfire Aces of World War 2 (Osprey Publishing Ltd., 2007) ISBN 13: 978 1 84603 202 8.

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