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Re: sergent-chef Louis Kann GCII/7 11 June 1943
Following is my translation of page 117 of the French book "Pilotes français sur l'Afrique du Nord et la Corse":
"Between 1425 and 1640 hrs twelve Spitfires of II/7 also flew around Pantelleria.
Between 1500 and 1600 hrs 20 Fw 190 and 15 Mc 202 escorted by Bf 109s from JG 53 attacked Allied ships and several air battles opposed them to Allied fighters.
Around 1530 hrs 2 Bf 109s flew close to the fighters of II/7 that attacked them immediately but the German fighters escaped by climbing higher. While they climbed back to their assigned patrol altitude, the French pilots saw two other Bf 109s and again chased them, but they escaped again.
Due to a failure of his belly tank, Adjudant Feldzer had to leave the formation. As his engine restarted shortly later, he climbed back across clouds to join the formation when he met a Ju 88 flying towards Sicily. He chased and attacked it, and the Ju 88 was hit and dived on fire. But as Feldzer was trying to finish it, he was fired at by AA fire and has to break off the pursuit. This "very probable victory" (the words of the book) was not officially credited.
Sergent-chef Kann (name is written like that in several instances in the book, also for other days) had also lost the formation in clouds and joined an US patrol. A Fw 190 was shot down in flames together with two American pilots."
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