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Originally Posted by Juha
For example on April 6th 1944, this is from Eric Hamel's Air War Europe (1994), "...The 350th FG, in modified ground-attack P-39s, mounts all-out effort against German Army lines of supply and communication...six of the group's P-39s is attacked in the afternoon by 10 FW-190s and Bf-109s in the Grosseto area, 10 P-39s flying top cover down five of the GAF fighters and drive away the rest without loss." Now, I don't know the real results but at least the pilots believed that they could fight with the LW fighters with their P-39s.
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If you want the actual results, go to my website
http://www.ghostbombers.com and click on the link for I./JG 2 in Italy: February-April 1944
There was also a P-39 action against I./JG 2 on 2 April, which is described there too.