[FrankieS]

just for those more curious:

WWII: Please describe your humorous encounter with a Lockheed P-38 pilot named Widen in Italy in 1944.
Steinhoff: This is a good story. I was test-flying an Me-109 with my aide near our base at Foggia. This was before I had been exiled from Germany, during my first tour as Kommodore of JG.77. Well, we were attacked at low level by a flight of P-38 Lightnings, about 100 American fighters in all, but the two of us figured, why not attack? We turned into them, and I flew through their formation going in the opposite direction, getting good strikes on a couple of them. I poured a good burst into this P-38 and the pilot rolled over, and I saw him bail out. I had this on gun camera also. Well, he was picked up and made a POW, and I invited him to my tent for a drink and dinner, as well as to spend the night. We drank some of the local wine... and drank and drank. I thought to myself, "What am I going to do with this guy?" Well, it was long after midnight, so I lay down in my tent and stretched my legs so I could reach his head. He woke up and said, "Don't worry, I won't run away, you have my word as an officer and a gentleman. Besides, you got me too drunk." We slept, and he kept his word, and I never placed a guard on him.


and possible MACR's:

433 F-5 42-132?1 3
520 P-38 42-13433 1
480 P-38 43-2361 1
503 P-38 43-2534 14
506 P-38 43-2470 14
504 P-38 42-13438 82
485 P-38 42-13402 82 2nd Lt. Paul I. Paskiewicz
486 P-38 42-12906 82 2nd Lt. James R. Rudy
487 P-38 42-13042 82 2nd Lt. Warren L. Singer
484 P-38 43-2512 82 2nd Lt. Eugene F. Phillips