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Originally Posted by bearoutwest
Additional (noticed sveahk's last comments):
I have no problem believing Schalk saw and recognized the markings, but he was being interviewed some time after the event. How close was he when he realized they were Swedish markings? How low were the Ca 313s flying? How low was Schalk? Did he attack the second Ca 313 a day later because he had convinced himself they were Russians flying with Swedish markings?
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Schalks "Gefechtsbericht" was written 15.5, one day after his first shoot-down, and a couple of hours after the second.
How close he was - he does'nt say.
The first Ca 313 flew at 1.000 meter over the water - the second one about 500 meter.
How low was Schalk? Obviously lower...
The second shoot-down:
In his own report he writes: "
Beim Einkurven erkannte ich denselben Flugzeugtyp wie am 14.5. Hoheitszeichen: 3 goldene Kronen auf blauem Grund, am Seitenleitwerk eine weisse Zahl, es kann eine 11 gewesen sein. Ich griff das Flugzeug von hinten an."
(In short: He recognized the plane, saw the insignia and attacked it from behind...)
This is missing in the Hearing report. His superiors presumably didn't like this part that much, so what we read in that report is what I've scanned in my last post...App 1.
Only reason, as I see it, why he still attacked the second Ca 313 - is, he was still not that convinced it was Swedish...and when the "enemy" aircraft tried to escape to the west - voila, he shot...!
Greetings Hans K