MIflyer
1st Lieutenant
Just started reading "Missions Remembered REcolelctions of the WWII Air War" from the men of the Middle Tennessee WWII Fighter Pilots Assn.
1. P-47 pilots were given a rubber coated hacksaw blade as part of their escape and evasion kits. It was rubber coated to enable hiding it anally.
2. P-47 pilots were told to fire at the Left wing root of BF-109's because that was the location of the fuel pump. If the 109 did not catch fire then at it would still likely go down due to destruction of the fuel pump.
3. On 10 June 1943 the 79th Fighter Group sent a fighter sweep from Cape Bon to Panatellaria and they spotted a large hospital aircraft hugging the waves, with about 10 BF-109's around it. The P-40's dove on the 109's and Lt Col Grogan's wing sliced through that of a 109, sending it tumbling out of the sky. Grogan headed for home with his outer wing missing.
The 79th shot down 15 Mc202 and BF-109's for th loss of one P-40.
4. On one escort mission over Germany the 351st fighter squadron observed 39 Me 262's pass overhead, arranged in 13 Vics of three.
1. P-47 pilots were given a rubber coated hacksaw blade as part of their escape and evasion kits. It was rubber coated to enable hiding it anally.
2. P-47 pilots were told to fire at the Left wing root of BF-109's because that was the location of the fuel pump. If the 109 did not catch fire then at it would still likely go down due to destruction of the fuel pump.
3. On 10 June 1943 the 79th Fighter Group sent a fighter sweep from Cape Bon to Panatellaria and they spotted a large hospital aircraft hugging the waves, with about 10 BF-109's around it. The P-40's dove on the 109's and Lt Col Grogan's wing sliced through that of a 109, sending it tumbling out of the sky. Grogan headed for home with his outer wing missing.
The 79th shot down 15 Mc202 and BF-109's for th loss of one P-40.
4. On one escort mission over Germany the 351st fighter squadron observed 39 Me 262's pass overhead, arranged in 13 Vics of three.
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