Hello everyone. I have a question concerning Col. Clarence "Bud" Anderson, a triple ace of 357th FG, 8th AF. Anyone who read his memoirs "To Fly And Fight" surely remembers the 1st chapter about his tough dogfight with a Bf 109. The story is here:
http://www.cebudanderson.com/ch1.htm
Anderson wrote: "I suppose I could go look it up in the archives. There's the chance I could find him in some gruppe's log book, having flown on this particular day, in this particular place, a few miles northwest of the French town of Strasbourg that sits on the Rhine. There are fellows who've done that, gone back and looked up their opponents. I never have. I never saw any point. He was someone who was trying to kill me, is all"
My question is: Did anyone try to establish who his opponent might have been? Judging from Anderson's account, he must have been a damn good flier and there weren't that many of them left in the Luftwaffe in mid-1944, perhaps a Staffelkapitaen or a Gruppenkommandeur?