Ruy
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Why the irony when its a german pilot and the ready acceptance when its an allied one?
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Well, you should read comments of Polish pilots when they heard of multiple claims of US B-17 gunners in the late 1942! The same one that caused a lot of laugh at Abbeville!
6's comment is quite valid though I do not think it exagerated in time. Please look at memoirs of Rudel when he describes a massacre done by Mustangs over SE (then S) Poland in 1944.
Andy
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You have a point - some of those 'heroic' rammings lauded by the press 60 years later perhaps were a result of simple collisions and ended up with the pilots' shooting a line, no doubt helped along by the press of the day.
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Doubtless, but there were some deeds of heroism or... stupidity! It just needs proper research and recognition and to filter out propaganda. I perfectly remember a talk with the late Skalski, who on the first day of war landed near a downed Henschel and personally took the crew POW. He said: people always ask me why I did it. I do not know, I was stupid! Friends were telling me that I will regret that. I do! I have to talk about that all the time!
Christer
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Luftflotte 3 fighter strength (source: Prien, “JG 1/11”, p. 1004)
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Just check how many aircraft went through the units during the June.
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Actually, in December 1944, in sheer numbers the Allied numerical superiority was less strong that it had been in June 1944.
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In France?