A ?? RE: an ace pilot's description of a dogfight:

[NickM]

Guys:

Yet ANOTHER walk down memory lane...

I am PRETTY sure the description I am asking about is from one of Edward Sims' books & the LW Experte is G-P Eder;
in his dogfight he was leading either a VERY reduced strength staffel or an overstrength schwarm of FW190s; anyways he describes being part of gefectverband of over 200 aircraft that attacks a bomber stream & then 'over 200' P47s dive to intercept THEM; he shoots down ONE B17 and then a P47 that overshoots him-he states the P47 loses a wing; then another group of P47s mixes it up in a furball with his flight but loses two & downs one LW fighter before Eder(?) disengages & dives away;


The thing that interests me is what/when it happened; Eder's account states that he had 20mm AND 30mm guns on his FW...when did the JW start using 30mm cannon on their FWs---I am ASSUMING these are Mk108s in the wings rather than in gunpods----and what allied units were actually involved in this dogfight & what their losses were;

TiA


nickm