Known claims with the Hawker Fury in the Second World War

Following known claims have been made by pilots while flying the Hawker Fury in the Second World War

Claims:
Kill no. Date Number Type Result Pilot Plane type Serial no. Locality Unit
  1940                
1 03/08/40 ½ Ca.133 (a) Shared destroyed Robert Blake Hawker Fury ’203’ Wajir 1 SAAF Squadron
1 03/08/40 ½ Ca.133 (a) Shared destroyed Patrick Rushmere Hawker Fury ’205’ Wajir 1 SAAF Squadron
  06/08/40 ½ Ca.133 (b) Shared damaged Two pilots of the unit Hawker Fury   Wajir 1 SAAF Squadron
2 19/10/40 1 Ca.133 (c) Destroyed H. J. Burger Hawker Fury ’200’ Garissa 2 SAAF Squadron
  1941                
3 06/04/41 1 Bf 110 (d) Destroyed Vojislav Popovic Hawker Fury II   Rezanovacka Kosa 111 Eskadrila
4 06/04/41 1 Bf 110 (d) Destroyed Konstantin Jermakov Hawker Fury II   Rezanovacka Kosa 112 Eskadrila
5 06/04/41 1 Enemy fighter (d) Destroyed Milorad Tanasic Hawker Fury II   Rezanovacka Kosa 36. grupa
6 06/04/41 1 Bf 109 Destroyed   Hawker Fury II   Rezanovacka Kosa 36. grupa
7 06/04/41 1 Bf 109 Destroyed   Hawker Fury II   Rezanovacka Kosa 36. grupa


TOTAL: 7 destroyed, 1 damaged.
(a) Ca.133 from 8a Squadriglia, 25o Gruppo. The crew perished.
(b) Ca.133 of 9a Squadriglia, 25o Gruppo,
(c) The crew was taken POW’s. According to some sources this combat took place on 20 October.
(d) Claimed in a ramming attack. Yugoslavian fighters claimed three Bf 109Es and two Bf 110s. II/ZG 26 lost two Bf 110s (Feldwebel Helmut Recker and Unteroffizier Adolf Sondermann and their gunners all lost) and I(J)/LG2 lost one aircraft (Oberfeldwebel Heinz Eckhardt MIA). Four other German fighters crashed on return.

Sources:
Air Enthusiast Quarterly/Three kindly provided by Börje Henningsson
Air war for Yugoslavia, Greece and Crete - Christopher Shores, Brian Cull and Nicola Malizia, 1987 Grub Street, London, ISBN 0-948817-07-0
Dust Clouds in the Middle East - Christopher Shores, 1996
Springbok Fighter Victory: East Africa Volume 1 1940 – 1941 – Michael Shoeman, 2002 African Aviation Series No. 11, Freeworld Publications CC, ISBN 0-958-4388-5-4
The Yugoslav Furies (Small air forces observer vol.22 no.4) - Sid Napier, 1998 kindly provided by Santiago Flores
Vazduhoplovne Zrtve 1913-1945 – Dusan Cirovic, 1970, Zemun, kindly provided by Nenad Miklusev.
Additional information kindly provided by Börje Henningsson Lars Larsson and Nenad Miklusev.





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