Re: shoot down ME262
From O'Connell, Me 262 Production Log, (2005), p. 182:
501221 Me 262 A-1a.This 3./JG 7 (or 11./JG7) aircraft was lost on 21 April 1945 while strafing Allied troops. It was shot down by Pfc. Ralph V. Caputo of C. Battery, of the 559th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion, 19th Anti-Aircraft Group, near Klotze (Gardelegen/Stendall), Germany with a MG 51 machine gun. The unnamed pilot was captured ...
Jim
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