Marseille's last

JG 27 was regularly outnumbered by Kittyhawks, Spits and Hurris making for insense melees. One of Marsielle's wingmen, Hans-Arnold Stahlschmidt who went MIA on Spptember 7th, wrote of a few hard fights outnumbered.

Marsielle scored his big feat on Spetember 1st with 17 kills in 3 sorties. In my research of Marsielle I have found no comment stating that on the 26th he faced a very tough opponent. I'll have to pour over my materials once more but 4 days later he became a legend when he bailed from his G with mechanical problem and never opened his chute.

Twitch said:

In my research of Marsielle I have found no comment stating that on the 26th he faced a very tough opponent. I'll have to pour over my materials once more.

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Thanks Twitch I appreciate.

Are You sure for this? I ask because at BoB we have the additional problem that the claims of the LUFTWAFFE also include bomber and zerstörer claims, which because of their nature generally tend to overclaim a lot. You speak of Fighter claims, that´s something really different, and I am not aware of any claim analysis to seperate Jagdwaffe claims from the other Luftwaffe claims at BoB.

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Tony Wood's claims lists are at http://www.lesbutler.ip3.co.uk/tony/tonywood.htm

You'll have to import them into a spreadsheet to get a breakdown of kills by type (eg Spitfire, Hurricane), but the claims for the BoB are from the Jagdwaffe only.

Note, though, that the claims lists are not complete, for example only 1 of Marseille's claims from the BoB period is listed, so this actually understates Jagdwaffe claims to some extent.

"Circus 108B" was flown on 13 October (1941) when 18 Blenheim Mk.IVs of 2 Group attacked industries at Marzingarbe at 13:50. The bombers were escorted by 10 squadrons, flying 119 sorties and claiming five victories and two damaged for the loss of two Spitfires and one Hurricane.
609 Squadron took off with twelve Spitfires from Biggin Hill at 13:24 as part of the High-Cover Wing. At 14:15 Flying Officer J. A. Atkinson claimed a damaged Bf109F in the Marzingarbe-Hardelot area at 20,000 feet. Five minutes later Offenberg claimed a second damaged Bf109F at the same altitude, 10 miles north-west of Le Touquet. 609 Squadron landed back at base at 15:35. It seems that they were engaged by Bf109s from JG 2 and JG 26 which claimed 20 Spitfires and two Blenheims between 14:32 and 15:40 in the Channel area during the two Circuses that was flown during the afternoon.

Hop said:

Tony Wood's claims lists are at http://www.lesbutler.ip3.co.uk/tony/tonywood.htm

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It will take a while to compile this but thanks, Hop, it´s a great link!