Recent content by aquarya

Hi, All, I looked back at an older post on the forum in regards to my main theme: Egon Mayer and January 7, 1944. One of the members, Vanir, (now banned) had given me Egon Mayer's A-6 werknummer as 470468, and stated it had 6 x 20 mm, and that it was the plane he also flew when he was killed...

I can't speak to Sept 6 43 but can confirm that 5 B-24's were shot down by JG2 on Jan 7 44. So the focus shouldn't be on whether the kills happened or not, as they did. Egon Mayer got credit for several. It brings up another question in my mind which I hesitate to put in writing... These were...

Well, I went to the archives in Freiburg, and there weren't any operational files there that I could find for JG2. I did get some information about the BR21 and its testing at Rechlin, but I'm still not any closer to "knowing" than I was before. I went to visit the video of the adjutant of...

Thanks, everyone, for the discussion. I'm flying on Saturday and not quite sure when I'll get to the archives in Freiburg, or what I'll find in the meantime, but I'll try to update as I can. This is really a tremendously exciting adventure investigating all of the possibilities!

Thanks so much for your reply. More info: Mayer also downed three other planes between 1300 and 1330 with 20 mm shells, and this was his second or third head-on pass on the lead plane when he finally got it. If he downed three other B-24's with 20 mm shells, must he have had a fairly...

Hi, guys, I've been trying for a year to determine whether JG2 Commander Egon Mayer shot down a B-24 on Jan 7, 1944 over France with 20mm or a rocket. I have no definitive answer. The after-action reports of the other American pilots are split evenly down the middle - half say it was a...

Hi, all, The documents are great, thanks so much for posting them. Just wondering, is there any confirmation that JG 2 used the BR? Thanks!

Well, it was worth a try. Thanks for posting those. Perhaps if rockets were actually used to shoot the B-24 down, then the footage might have been kept TOP SECRET, and destroyed with the all the rest. Thanks again!

CB that is such a wonderful possibility. I had almost given up because I was speaking with a museum historian who said that almost all of the gun cam footage had been destroyed in bombing raids. That may be true, but if it made the Wochenschau then it would have been preserved! Brilliant...

Greetings from a first-time poster (girl). While in Normandy this year for the D-day celebrations I ran across the story of an American B-24 gunner who had been shot down over Bouville, France on January 7, 1944 after making a bombing run on Ludwigshafen following a group of B-17's. I...