Me-262 shoot down

[Allan125]

Hi Chief Wahoo - I have checked the 125 Wing ORB for those dates:-
"14/2/45 .....Me262's and Ar234's were active during the day in the battle area, and in the afternoon 610 Sqdn had a lucky break. A section of two led by F/Lt Gaze, after several attempts to engage the elusive raiders, succeeded in getting an Me262 which fell to F/Lt Gaze. The Huns were diving through cloud and then getting back again, so leaving his No. 2 below cloud, Tony went up on top with the idea of giving warning when the next lot were coming down. He arrived on the scene to find three Me262's stooging along like country gentlemen, and he obligingly put one to bed. Congratulations to Tony and 610 Sqdn on the first jet to fall to this Wing."
"11/4/45 Good weather enable the Wing to get cracking to an early start and the day yielded quite a good fruit the richest of which was a Ju.52 destroyed by F/Lt Gaze...."
"12/4/45 we got off to a fairly early start on patrols between DELMONHORST and VERDEN. these were kept going all day and armed recces in the ROTENBURG-SOLTAU-CELLE areas were also flown with some success. F/Lt Gaze again obliged, this time with F/Lt Rake when they jointly destroyed an Arado 234"
30 April 1945 is more difficult to actually give this victory to Tony Gaze in your Spitfire, unless you have his logbook to state he was flying it that day, although he certainly scored on this day "...However, F/Lt Gaze found a Fw190 and shot it down...." as it was a complete day of victories - starting with "What a day! Victory rolls galore, a record month for the Wing and a record month for the Group too" before going on to diarise a most eventful day literally full of victories for 41, 130 and 350 (Belgian) squadrons both aerial and met. and ending with "That completed our day and also our most successful month. 125 Wing - take a bow!" Hope this helps - Allan