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Re: Hungarian Air force activity on 14 Mar 45

George Punka, “Messer, The Messerschmitt 109 in the Royal Hungarian ‘Honvéd' Air Force” (OMIKK, Budapest, 1995) ISBN 963 593 216 2, (page 95):
"The second mission of the day, a fighter sortie was mounted by a four-plane flight from the 101/7. FS under the command of Ens Kálmán. They attacked eighteen B-26 "Marauders" escorted by four Yak-9s at 3000 metres. After a ten minute air combat Ens Kálmán shot one of the bombers down at Alsódabas. This was his eleventh victory.

The eight aircraft, that took off after them, were flying fighter cover over Simontornya and Ozora. They were flying over the assigend territory, when suddenly checker-tailed P-51 "Mustangs" appeared at 4000 metres.

The American B-24 and B-17 bomber formations were on their way back from an attack on the Florisdorf area and were escorted by P-38 and P-51 fighters. The four-engined planes also bombed Érsekújvár and Komárom.The 'Lightnings' flew over Veszprém at 11.27 a.m. The "Mustangs" were out looking for prey. Six to eight American fighters got into a dogfight with the Hungarians. Lt. Forró succeeded in getting into firing position. He saw clearly that the rounds of his 30 mm cannon had hit the cockpit and the mid part of the fusleage. The plane, S/N 4463360 crashed south of Ozora."
The appendix (page 137) has no Bf 109 losses for 14 March.
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