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Thanks again for the information. I agree that the "history" of wartime encounters ranges from exact to at best a faded memory. No doubt the aircraft was shot down etc. Ed tells me that he was shooting at an fighter which hit his aircraft in the wing/engine area setting an engine on fire as well as a cannon shell exploding in his turret. It knocked out the turret severley wounding him and his left arm was jammed in the gun mechanism. He had to break his own wrist to free his arm. He spent 17 months in hospital in Italy and the USA after this. Your help is invaluable to me as I try to piece together his history. I have located a WW2 cartoon written in 1943 that features "Chief Wahoo" when she was with the 97th BG in Nth. Africa. If you send me your email address, I'll forward it to you. The guys here might like to see it as well. I don't know how to upload it.
I own a Spitfire XIV RM-797 that shot down four e/a including a Fw-190/Me-262/Ar-234/Ju-52 and am rebuilding it to fly.
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