Hi. I am knew to the Forum, but will take the liberty to sugest a topic: How about histories of confirmed cases of kills in aerial combats involving Known aces? I mean, cases in which a US ace shootdown a German ace, for example. I wonder how many well documented cases of this happening there are…
I will start it off , which two tales extracted from Osprey´s "Japanese Air Force Aces":
1 - On 19 March 1945 the 16 kills Japanese ace Stg. Yokio Shimokawa was flying a Ki-84 "Frank' over Hiroshima and claimed two Hellcats . Latter in the same mission he was in return shoot down himself by a Hellcat from VF-17 flown by 6 kills ace Lt. Tilman E Pool. The Japanese ace managed to bail out and survived the war.
2 – On 10 April 1942 3rd AVG Flt Ltr Robert T Smith ( 8 kills), flying a P-40C ,destroyed the Ki-43 "Oscar" piloted by Major Yohei Hinoki (12 kills) over Loiwing , China. Curiously, after barely surviving a hard crash landing, Hinoki would 'tangle' a second time with an american ace. On 27 November 1943, again flying a Oscar, his aircraft was severely damaged over Burma, by fire from the 530TH FS P-51A flown by Lt. Robert F Mulhollem ( 5 kills). Hinoki lost a leg in this incident, but managed to bring his shot up plane back to base. He survived the war. To even the score a bit, let me tell you that Hinoki is the pilot credited with downing Col. Harry R Melton´s A-36A over Burma, 25 november, 1943. Melton was the commander of the 311th Fighter-Bomb group, and was captured after parachuting.
Well, that is it from now. Anyone interested in following it up?
Best regards
I will start it off , which two tales extracted from Osprey´s "Japanese Air Force Aces":
1 - On 19 March 1945 the 16 kills Japanese ace Stg. Yokio Shimokawa was flying a Ki-84 "Frank' over Hiroshima and claimed two Hellcats . Latter in the same mission he was in return shoot down himself by a Hellcat from VF-17 flown by 6 kills ace Lt. Tilman E Pool. The Japanese ace managed to bail out and survived the war.
2 – On 10 April 1942 3rd AVG Flt Ltr Robert T Smith ( 8 kills), flying a P-40C ,destroyed the Ki-43 "Oscar" piloted by Major Yohei Hinoki (12 kills) over Loiwing , China. Curiously, after barely surviving a hard crash landing, Hinoki would 'tangle' a second time with an american ace. On 27 November 1943, again flying a Oscar, his aircraft was severely damaged over Burma, by fire from the 530TH FS P-51A flown by Lt. Robert F Mulhollem ( 5 kills). Hinoki lost a leg in this incident, but managed to bring his shot up plane back to base. He survived the war. To even the score a bit, let me tell you that Hinoki is the pilot credited with downing Col. Harry R Melton´s A-36A over Burma, 25 november, 1943. Melton was the commander of the 311th Fighter-Bomb group, and was captured after parachuting.
Well, that is it from now. Anyone interested in following it up?
Best regards