Re: Shootdown of JAAF Fiat BR 20 0ver Buka Nov 43?
Stig,
Here is what Blackburn says about it: "A light transport plane was in the traffic pattern over Buka, turning on final approach. Dirty Eddie and I fired at the same instant at about 200 yards; we didn't even have to pull up in order to clear the flaming wreckage....Dirty Eddie and I took aim at the fifty-man reception committee still in parade formation for the newly deceased dignitary aboard the flamed transport".
On the face of it a shared kill, but different squadrons had different methods of dealing with this. Perhaps they cut cards or rolled a dice to decide the claim?
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George Kernahan
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