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...Mustang turned into him and the Nazi peeled off into a diving turn. Ten thousand feet farther down the Mustang pilot nailed his man with a long close-in burst. First the FW's wheels fell out, then the plane exploded and its pieces tumbled earthward. Second Lieut. WauKau Kong, pilot of "Chinaman's Chance" and one of the U.S. Fighter Command's hottest aero-bats, had made his first kill...
Next day the Major shot down his first enemy plane. Life grew brighter. He shot down some more. The exultant Major got kill after kill. Last week he flew his "Little Demon" over Frankfurt and shot down an Me-109 and an FW-190. They were his 17th and 18th victories and they made 27-year-old Major Beckham top-ranking ace in the European Theater of Operations...
...Secretary Sir Archibald Sinclair last week gave a name to the Nazi nuisance raiders: he called them "the scalded cats." Usually streaking in at high altitudes, singly or in small groups, Me 410 and FW 190 fighter-bombers cross the Channel from France in 16 minutes or so, dump their bombloads anywhere, skedaddle for home. These in-&-out tactics give the Fighter Command and anti-aircraft guns slight chance to strike back, but the R.A.F. has bagged more than 6% of the intruders. (British Mosquito bomber losses over Germany: less than...
When Luftwaffe pilots first met the Fortresses, they had a brutal shock. Used to sitting beyond the short range of .30-caliber guns and potting British bombers with their light aircraft cannon, Messerschmitt and Fw-190 pilots found themselves in heavy fire as they approached the U.S. bombers. For a while U.S. commanders had trouble persuading their gunners to fire when the Germans were many hundreds of yards away: the gunners, unused to their high-velocity, long-range weapons, had been trained to wait too long. But they soon learned better, and Fortresses knocked down at least 48 German fighters...