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Re: Ace in a day
Here are three French "aces in one day"
8 June 1940 Cne Robert Willame of GC I/2 shot down 3 Me109 and 3 Ju87 over France (a Ju87 shared with another pilot and a Me109 shared with two other pilots) 15 June 1940 Pierre Le Gloan of GC III/6 claimed 4 CR42 (two shared with another pilot) and a BR20 over Southern France. 8 November 1942 George Blanck of GC III/3 shot down 2 Albacores and 3 shared C-47 during the Torch landings (the C-47s were shared with 3 other pilots). I believe there were no others. I was guessing I will find one in Normandie-Niemen on the Eastern Front but if several pilots claimed 4 victories in one day, none reached the 5-kills mark as far as I have found. And for a partial list for American pilots, see the following link (only for P-51 pilot): http://www.mustangsmustangs.net/p-51...ceinaday.shtml A "complete" list is available here: http://math.fce.vutbr.cz/safarik/ACE...1/usa-top.html But I doubt that all USN/USMC ace-in-a-day are in the list. And you will find the story of the last American ace in a day here: http://www.elknet.pl/acestory/perdomo/perdomo.htm Antoni Glowacki that you have in your list is according to my sources the only Polish ace in a day. A list of Soviet "ace-in-a-day" is available here: http://math.fce.vutbr.cz/safarik/ACE.../sssr-top.html |
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