NIGEL GRIPPE (Janiec)

NIGEL GRIPPE - WESTERN EUROPE, SUMMER, 1941

Flying Officer, 611 SQN, Hornchurch Wing

Earned the "HORSEPOWER" Ace Ability

EVENT	Mission #	Mission Type	Flight Position	Kills	Type of Kills		Number of times shot down	Escort Points	Status	Ace Ability
GMT-2002-Apr.	1	Dogfight	Spitfire VB Wm	1	Bf-109F		0	---	Active	---
GMT-2002-Apr.	2	Escort Blenheims	Spitfire VB Wm	0	None		0	+1	Active	---
GMT-2002-Apr.	3	Dogfight	Spitfire VB Wm	1	Bf-109F		0	---	Active	---
GMT-2002-Apr.	4	Dogfight	Hurricane-IIC Wm	0	None		0	---	Active	---
GMT-2002-Apr.	5	Dogfight	Spitfire VB Wm	0	None		0	---	Active	---
CSW-2002	6	Dogfight	Spitfire VB Wm	0	None		0	---	Active	---
GMT-2004-Oct.	7	Dogfight	Spitfire VB Wm	1	Bf-109E		0	---	Active	---
GMT-2004-Oct.	8	Dogfight	Spitfire VB Wm	0	None		0	---	Active	---
GMT-2004-Oct.	9	Dogfight	Spitfire VB Wm	0	None		1	---	Active	---
CSW-2005	10	Dogfight	Spitfire VB Wm	0	None		0	---	Active	---
CSW-2006	11	Dogfight	Spitfire VB Ldr	2	2 Bf-109Fs		0	---	Active	---
GMT-2010-Oct.	12	Escort Blenheims	Spitfire VB Ldr	1	Bf-109F		1	-0.5	KIA*	H
TOTALS	12			6	5 Bf-109Fs	1 Bf-109E	2	+0.5	KIA*	H

* KIA from exploding fuel tank attack.

PILOT HISTORY:

Assigned as wingman to FO Basil Vice on missions 1-to-10.
Shot down Luftwaffe 7-kill ace, Lt. Peter Falkenberg, on mission 1.
Assumed flight leadership starting mission 11 after FO Vice was shot down and killed.
Shot down by Luftwaffe Lt. Karl Raeder on mission 9. Ditched in Channel and picked up by Air-Sea rescue Walrus aircraft
Twelfth overall RAF Spitfire MK. V Ace in the Down in Flames Aces' Campaigns.
Shot down by Luftwaffe Fw Erich Axthammer on mission 12.

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