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...