P-51 "Old Crow" and 8./JG 1 - a little discovery

[Lagarto]

Recently I dug up an interesting story, which occurred on 21st February 1944, and I thought it might be of interest to you. Here it goes:

According to the book on JG 1, on that day over Netherlands Fw. Fritz Haspel of 8th Staffel was jumped by (what he thought was) a P-47, and his Bf 109 was critically damaged by gunfire. “Haspel bailed out after jettisoning the canopy. The latter hit the propellor of the Thunderbolt, and it in turn went down out of control. The American pilot managed to bail out, but, deploying his parachute too quickly, the silk tore, and he broke both his legs due to a rapid descent” [quoted after E. Mombeeck, Defending the Reich, The History of Jagdgeschwader 1 “Oesau”].

Haspel claimed his victory (and was credited with it) over Meppel, shortly before his Bf 109 crashed into IJsselmeer. However, it was not a Thunderbolt that he accidentally knocked down. Only two P-47s failed to return that day. The one of 356th FG was definitely shot down in the area of Hannover, and its pilot killed. The other one, of 361st FG, was crash-landed on the Dutch coast (due to engine failure), but on the way in, an hour before III./JG 1 even took off. Moreover, its pilot walked away unscathed, made contact with the Dutch resistance and remained with them until the liberation of the Netherlands.
The circumstances suggest that the American pilot involved was actually Lt. Alfred Boyle of 357th FG, flying a Mustang. His MACR record states that ten miles north-east of Zwolle he “closed on tail of Me 109 from 20,000 ft to within 50 yards at 7,000 ft, where E/A disintegrated due to attack. Lt. Boyle was last seen in a vertical dive through wreckage at 600 mph” [MACR 2418]. Lt. Boyle managed to bail out and was taken prisoner. He was rightly credited with a victory, too.

Does anyone here know more details about the circumstances in which Lt. Boyle was taken prisoner? Was he the pilot who broke both his legs? His descent must indeed have been rapid! An interesting sidenote - on that day Boyle was flying Bud Anderson's first "Old Crow".