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The Allies were deciphering signals from Luftwaffe units in Southern France, including those of Jafü Südfrankreich (Fighter Controller South France):
(File HW 5/547). The pilot who crashed can be identified from the records of the Deutsche Dienststelle (WASt.) in Berlin: he was Leutnant Arndt-Richard Hupfeld, the leader of Rippert's Staffel, who was badly injured. The casualty report identifies his machine as a Bf 109 G-6, Werk Nummer 163231, marked "yellow 1." Another intercept (CX/MSS/R.262(C), paragraph 7) states that aircraft 163231 had crash landed owing to lack of fuel and was being sent to the factory for repair. It never got that far, it was later found dismantled in a hangar at Avignon-Chateau Blanc by the Allies. (AIR 51/281, MAAF Field Intelligence Unit – Report No. 11). The 1./JGr. 200 also had to consign an aircraft for factory repair, Bf 109 G-6/U4 W.Nr. 441665 which suffered a breakdown on take-off. (The same Staffel had received two Bf 109 G-6/U4 from Wiesbaden the previous day: 441752, and 441754 which was fitted with FuG 16 and FuG 25A). The deciphered report of the day's reconnaissance missions does not include any flights by 2./NAGr. 13's Fw 190s. (File DEFE 3/64, item XL 4202). The Allies, listening-in on the network they called the “Trumpet/Fighter Stars” recorded the following fighter activity over the South of France (Bletchley Park Archive, file BLEPK.0358.1, item PEARL/ZIP/GAG No. 556) which does not appear to include Guth’s sortie to intercept Meredith:
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