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I WAS FLYING YELLOW TWO IN TURMOIL SQUADRON
ON AN ARMED
RECCE
MISSION IN THE KOBLENZ-BONN AREA. WE HAD
JUST FINISHED
DIVE
BOMBING SOME BARGES ON A RIVER WHEN BANDITS
WERE REPORTED
AT
20,000 FEET. YELLOW LEADER AND I CLIMBED TO
12,000 FEET AND
WERE
ATTACKED BY SIX ME-109'S. THEY CAME DOWN ON
YELLOW LEADER'S
TAIL
AND I FIRED A BURST AT THE FIRST ONE AND HE
BROKE OFF, THE
SECOND
ATTACK OF SIX MORE CAME FROM ELEVEN O'CLOCK
AND I FIRED A
BURST
AT ONE FROM ABOUT 40 DEGREES AT
APPROXIMATELY 500 YARDS,
NO
HITS OBSERVED, THE THIRD ATTACK OF SIX MORE
CAME FROM NINE
O'CLOCK
AND I FIRED A BURST AT ONE OF THEM AND
OBSERVED A FEW STRIKE,
HE
ROLLED OVER ON HIS BACK
AND SPLIT "S"
DOWN WITH A THICK BLACK
STREAM
OF SMOKE COMING FROM HIS ENGINE. I COULD NOT
FOLLOW HIM
DOWN
BECAUSE OF ANOTHER ATTACK OF SIX MORE FROM
TWELVE O'CLOCK;
THREE
SHIPS (190'S) CAME DOWN ON YELLOW LEADER AND
MYSELF. I FIRED
ON
ONE BUT DID NOT OBSERVE HITS, HOWEVER, LT.
PILCH YELLOW LEADER
STATES
THAT THE FW-190 EXPLODED IN FRONT OF HIM AND
THAT NO ONE
ELSE
WAS FIRING ON HIM BUT MYSELF. AT THAT TIME
MY LEADER WAS
HIT
IN THE LEFT WING
AND XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXOF ANOTHER
ATTACK
FROM ASTERN.
I SAW THREE ME-109'SXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX, ONE OF THEM
IN
FLAMES. I DID NOT SEE ANY CHUTES.
I CLAIM ONE ME-109 DESTROYED AND ONE FW-190
DESTROYED.
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