AUSTRIA
World War II
ROYAL AIR FORCE
VICTORIES
NAME CONFIRMED PROBABLE DAMAGED UNITS COMMENTS
Czernin z Chudenic, Count Manfred Beckett 18 [13+5] 4 [3+1] 5 [3+2] 85,17 1.
Lammer, Alfred 6 141,255 2.
Colloredo-Mansfeld, Count Franz Ferdinand 3 4 4 72,611,132 3.
Comments
| 1. | Manfred Czernin was born in Berlin on 18th January 1913, son of Austrian diplomat - Count Otto Rudolf Czernin z Chudenic - and the daughter of the 2nd Baron Grimthorpe - Lucy Catherine Beckett. |
| 2. | An Austrian Jewish Refugee, he was born in Linz on 28th November 1909. Air Gunner later Navigator / Radar Operator. Flying with Squadron Leader John Howard Player (four victories) and Wing Commander Dillon Piers Denis Gerard Kelly (three victories - two with A. Lammer). |
| 3. | Franz Ferdinand Colloredo-Mansfeld was born in Rome on 1st March 1910, son of Count Ferdinand Colloredo-Mansfeld and Countess Colloredo-Mansfeld, née Iselin. Part of his childhood he spend in Zbiroh u Rokycan, Bohemia. Although credited by some sources with six victories (Hess, William N.: The Allied Aces of World War II, Arco Publishing Co, Inc., New York 1966, page 36), this would appear to have included both confirmed and probable claims. |
| G | : Gunner |
| N/RO | : Navigator / Radar Operator |
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Supermarine Spitfire F.Mk.IXC EN133 FY-B flown by Flt Lt Franz Colloredo-Mansfeld of No 611 Sqn,
Biggin Hill, September 1942.
Sources & Literature
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