best fighter of ww II

[lesofprimus]

Many, many German Aces were shot down Multiple times by inferior, new or green airmen and crews...

 

[lesofprimus]

On April 15th 1941, to celebrate General Theo Osterkamp's 49th birthday, Oberstleutnant Adolf Galland Kommodore of JG 26, decided to join the festivities and personally deliver some lobsters and oysters in his new Bf-109 F...

Flying from Brest to Le Touquet, France, Galland decided a detour to England was in order... His hunter's instinct paid off as near Dover he surprised a large flight of Spitfires....

Being unfamiliar with the new F models Galland inadvertently lowered his landing gear in the heat of the air battle... . Even with this handicap he downed three Spitfire Mark II's.....

As Galland flew through the formation, famous RAF Ace Paddy Finucane chased Galland down, riddled his plane with shells, and shot him down, claiming him as a victory....

Finacune was by no means green or new, but the # of kills that Paddy had was 32, (which makes him 1 of 4 Brits to go over 30 kills) was nothing to the Seventy somethin kills that Galland had by then...

 

[lesofprimus]

Here is another little example....

April 26, 1945 - Lt. James J. Finnegan, was leading Green Flight of the 10th FS, part of a 16 P47 formation, escorting medium on a mission to Schrobenhausen, Germany....

Attacking Me-262's swooped in and attacked.... 2 bombers go down and a 262 breaks off... At the controls was none other than General Adolf Galland, leader of this elite unit (JV44).

Over Schrobenhausen, Finnegan heard the warning 'Jet Bandits'... He then spotted Galland's fighter and dived after it.... Not even an Me 262 could easily escape a P-47 in a power dive, and Finnegan soon caught up with him, and got off a short burst of fire. He observed strikes to the jet's right wing root, before Galand banked left into a cloud.

Finnegan broke off the pursuit and returned home, where he duly reported the encounter, and was credited with a damaged and probable. Nobody in the group knew who the German jet pilot was; and it wasn't until years later that Finnegan found out.

Galland, having brought off an exeptional dead stick landing, had suffered a knee injury painful enough for him to be hosptalized, and was lost to JV44 Squadron for the remaining weeks of the war.

Quote from Finnegan...
"I was at about 13,000 feet and estimated them to be at about 9-10,000. They were climbing, and I pulled a split-S towards the one that turned left, and almost ended up right on top of him - about 75 yards away!!

I gave a 3 second burst and saw strikes on the right hand engine and wing root. I was going so fast, I went right through everything, and guessed my speed at about 550 mph. I recorded it as a probable..."

That turned out to be his last flight in a P-47... Finnegans total kills for the war were Three (THREE) (3), an FW-190 and an Me-109, in addition to the Me-262.

Finnegan had 3 freakin kills in all of WW2... And basically shot down one of the greatest fighter pilots and tacticians the world has ever seen, who had around 100 kills at the time...

 

[GermansRGeniuses]

That's not Galland's machine, that's Franz Stigler's.

It is thought to be Galland's since he took a picture next to it.

 

[lesofprimus]

ty for the info and correction...

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

i hope the lobsters aren't in the fuel tank in the top one...............

 

[lesofprimus]

No, the lobsters and oysters we in a basket behinds Gallands seat...

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

good, they'd make interesting fuel though..............

 

[lesofprimus]

Engine would probably run alittle rough tho...

And smoke like a bastard...

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

the lobster would be nicely smoked though............

 

[lesofprimus]

Yea, but I'm sure it would be overcooked to my liking....

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

well when the FW-190 comes with the wine that should help wash it down................

 

[lesofprimus]

Depends on the wine....

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

you know cornish wine was recently voted as good as the best frence or spanish wine....................

 

[lesofprimus]

I didnt know that and i dont belive it... The southern Coast of England isnt exactly known for its fine wines...

And I assume the vote was done in England??? In Cornish proper???

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

it was actually done by some consumer magazine...........

 

[lesofprimus]

Written and printed in the UK???

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

yes

 

[lesofprimus]

I thought so.. Alot of Wine mags printed here in the States say that "California wines are as good as French and Spanish..."

Funny how we all compare our wines to the French and Spanish..

Hmmmmm....

 

[cheddar cheese]

Aussie wine is the best 8)