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Victory Over Normandy
"In the evening, it was 'A' flight's turn. I was Barley
Blue 3. About 40 miles south of Caen at 7,000 feet, we were looking for German
transport moving up to the front. As we were flying on an easterly course, the
sun was behind us; always dangerous. Suddenly, I saw a half dozen FW-190s coming
in quickly out of the sun on our starboard rear quarter, with more 190s higher,
behind them.
'Barley squadron break right! 190s coming down!' I
called, and immediately there was a great melee of two dozen aircraft twisting
and turning and firing, a real old fashioned scrap. I was somewhat surprised
that the FWs didn't dive through at high speed as usual, but a number of them,
at least, stayed to fight.
After two or three hard descending steeps turns to the
right, I managed to latch onto the tail of a 190, but he dove steeply out to the
east. I followed at full throttle to ground level and caught up to him. One
short burst at 300 yards with both cannon and machine gun and the FW crashed
into the trees in a great ball of fire. Flight Lt. R. Bouskill, Blue 4, who had
remained with me, confirmed this action."
Extract from pilot Hap Kennedy's book, "Black Crosses Off My Wingtip." Reprinted with permission
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