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Ruy - that's unfortunate since I assume your post was like the one I did on this same subject a few months ago - informative and providing new insight on an event that has become part of the historical record.
I posted this same info a few months ago at the IL2 FB forum and it received little attention. Again this is Gerald Johnson's claim in this new book and in no way are the posts past, present, future mean to take away from the spirit and courage of any of these flyers, especially Bob Johnson who to me was one of the most aggressive fighter pilots in the USAAF during this period.
What I find it odd is that it this new information surfaces now and not earlier in any other book on this subject, especially a Freeman book who has written many book on the 56th FG.
Here's the actual quote from the book: "From times and location Gerald Johnson was convinced that the FW190 he shot down was that which shot up his namesake's P-47. He heard Bob's story and said nothing, although he thought that in the excitment Bob had let his imagination run awy with him concerning the chivalrous German pilot. No such incident was reported from the German side."
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