MARSEILLE his last kill

[Franek Grabowski]

Originally Posted by Nick Beale

1. In all the excitement, did anyone ever actually come up with an answer to the original question in this thread?

Yes, likely 601 Sqn. It is about 10 minutes of work, starting the count down at the time you passed those nice gentlemen at the entry. Sadly, I am too far away from NA to help.

2. The discussions about skill and experience seemed to be passing over combat fatigue/stress. People can onlt take so much. For very good reasons, the RAF and USAAF flew operational tours; the Luftwaffe kept people in action until death, injury or promotion supervened. Read Robert Forsyth's "JV 44, The Galland Circus" and you come away with the feeling that some of the "greats" were burned out by 1945.

It seems a myth. You can find a lot of photos of eg. Graff during the holidays, Wick received order to not to fly combat missions just when he took off for his last mission, Galland survived the war, he was removed from the combat flying much earlier than the comparable Allied aces. Certianly the sustem was not Allied look alike but somehow Hartmann picked up Uschi, did not he?

Cheers