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Dili -> RE: unusual a2a kill (9/11/2014 11:31:06 AM)

Tough not an aerial kill i remember seeing a photo of a P-47 in Europe that went so low that the propeller tips were bent.



tiemanjw -> RE: unusual a2a kill (9/11/2014 6:19:36 PM)

reading Neptune's Inferno and got this last night (a Marine pilot flying from Henderson defending an attack by Betties against some transports and escorts in early Nov):
"...the fighter was evidently out of ammunition, for its driver resorted to an unusual tactic. Down came his landing gear. Down went his airspeed. It looked to McEntee as if he was trying "to set his ship down on the bomber's broad back. And he did - again and again, and again, with sledgehammer impact. He literally was pounding the enemy into the sea with his wheels.""



wdolson -> RE: unusual a2a kill (9/12/2014 12:13:29 AM)

P-47s also came back to base after flying through power lines. They were tough airplanes.

Bill



desicat -> RE: unusual a2a kill (9/14/2014 2:02:38 AM)

Of course an aircraft's worse enemy is ....... birds! Had this problem myself on numerous occasions, thankful to never have lost an aircraft though.

RAF vs Birds



Mike Solli -> RE: unusual a2a kill (9/14/2014 2:27:47 AM)

I read this account somewhere, possibly in Flying Forts. A B-17 crewman's plane was in formation with a number of other B-17s over Germany. A German fighter attacked a B-17 head on next to the eye witnesses plane. The fighter never broke off. Not sure if the pilot was wounded, dead or had had enough. He hit the B-17 head on. He described it as if the B-17 just swallowed the fighter. Obviously he couldn't hear anything. but saw the fighter get engulfed by the bomber leaving a hole where the front of the bomber was. A few seconds later, he saw the of the fighter's engine exit out the rear of the B-17. The B-17 went down. There were no survivors.



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