Thread: What instructor pilot downed Chuck Yeager on 5 Mar 44?
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Old 19th September 2009, 00:23
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Re: What instructor pilot downed Chuck Yeager on 5 Mar 44?
Don -
The FW 190 Pilot was Unteroffizier Irmfried Klotz.
After He shot down Yeager , He was shot down by
Capt. William O'Brien. He bailed out but his Chute
failed to Open and was KIA.
From Book: To War with The Yoxford Boys by
Merle Olmsted Pages 55 , 56.
Information from WW II French Historian Didier Fuentes.
Mike
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