[Roger Gaemperle]

Hi Andy,

Thank you for the info. That's interesting. I don't think that Jack Bernhard did write something in his log which was not true, but perhaps it was not confirmed or another pilot got credit for it. Probably, it is almost impossible to find out if he really shot down a German fighter or not unless there exist some combat reports (speaking of combat reports: do they still exist and if so, in what archive?).

If anyone has a photo of 42-8505 MX-K Smilin' Jack, please let me know. It would be great to see how it looked like. First Bernhard flew MX-E but in the log the same number (8505) is written next to MX-E. So, I assume that they later changed it to MX-K.

Regards,
Roger Gaemperle