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Re: Mustangs over Czech on May 8 1945?
From the book Aerial Reconnaissance: The 10th Photo Recon Group In World War II by Tom Ivie, p. 169:
"On the 15th TAC R's last mission of the day Leland Larson and George Schroeder had a similar experience with two FW-190s. This time they managed to destroy both planes without firing a single shot. The section approached the 190s with the intention of escorting them to Furth, but the 190s took hostile action and the section reacted. Lt. Schroeder followed one of them to the deck and chased it until the Focke-Wulf crashed into some trees, and Larson fastened himself on to the tail of the other. The Focke-Wulf dived to 500 feet, made a tight turn to the left - too tight - snapped into a spin and crashed and burned. The only shots fired were those by the FW-190s in their first and only offensive action of the encounter, which scored a single hit on Schroeder's left wing."
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