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Re: General Patton's L5 attacked by an RAF Spitfire.
F/Lt Mieczyslaw Gorzula of No. 309 Sqn escorted Sgt Stefan Zagroba whose aircraft had an engine problem. Both flew North American Mustang IIIs. Don't know who “Maciej Stancki, a graduate student at both Warsaw University and Poland's National Academy of Defense” is, but the story was described in Polish aviation publications. I remember reading it in an obituary of Mieczyslaw Gorzula after he died in 2005. IIRC nobody tried to shoot Patton down, they just visually identified his aeroplane (which involved approaching it, and that may have been what frightened him). I think Franek Grabowski can provide more detail.
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