Huge Luftwaffe Victories over USAAF?

[Boomerang]

Originally Posted by drgondog

McFarlin (339FG flying with 4th), Sobanski and Steppe all KIA near Dreux at 2035 hours - all unknown causes but presumably air even though McFarlin was heard to say he had a bad magneto and on the way home around 2000 hours.

Gentleman:

A belated comment, but I just recalled that in JG 26 War Diary Volume Two, Caldwell states that the 4FG P-51 that aborted with a bad magneto and was lost on 6 6 44 is a good match for a P-51 claim SE of Caen by Oblt Kunz of I/JG 26.

Might be another small piece in a very big jigsaw puzzle.

Cheers

Don (Boomerang)

[drgondog]

Could be Don -

it may be interesting but insignificant, but by my calculation the 4th lost more air to air than any other 8AF Fighter Group by nearly a 2x factor over the 56th, for example, and they had the lowest air to air ratios.

From a perspective of air to air ratios vs Luftwaffe it was in the 5:1 range whereas the 56th was closer to 11:1 (This discounts all flak, all mechanical and all accidents' - just pure fighter vs Fighter)..

Regards,

Bill