USAAF Mosquito 9-4-1945

[paulmcmillan]

That email contact address for Nelson Henry Griffin 410th D Company is no longer valid, but I have found his daughter on myspace and sent her a message so we shall see!

So it appears that NS792 was shot down by a P-51 - In an old posting here

http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showth...t=2670&page=35

Norman suggests he may have Id'd the unit or maybe one of the other 2 Mosquito losses mentioned

Paul

[Franek Grabowski]

Presumably due to popular belief, that Germans were using captured uniforms and equipment. Kampfgruppe Peiper certainly did not help to dissolve the myth.
PAF Mustang claims were over Hamburg that day, and I am not sure if there were any RAF claims that day. The place allows no conclusions, but what was the time?

Gentlemen,

According to Claude's wristwatch it stopped at 1745 hours. It is interesting that the soldier guarding the road, cut off a piece of silk as a souvenir. I now presume that when the infantry men made the stretcher from two heavy branches and their jackets, they must have pulled the parachute canopy down from the branches and used the silk shroud to cushion the stretcher when they laid Claude Moore on top?

Norman Malayney

[paulmcmillan]

BTW

I have just found out Claude Moore and Nelson Griffin did meet up post war! I have asked for permission to post the details..

Paul

[Frank Olynyk]

As Franek has noted the Poles claimed 3/0/1 Me-262s 15 miles W of Hamburg at 1755 (306 and 309 Sqns). Later claims in the day are by Tempests (Me-108s) and Mosquitos (Ju-88/188s). The only other claim for the day is an Me-262 dam SW of Hamburg between 1552 and 1925 by F/O A D Woodcock of 64 Sqn in Mustang III HB949.

I do not have any French claims on this date in my database.

Frank.

[mhuxt]

Anything from the USAAF fighters Frank?

edit - This site:

http://www.swissmustangs.ch/20214/20...session*id*val*

says the Free French started receiving Mustangs (recce) in March '45

[Harri Pihl]

AFAIK all the Mustang recce variants were armed, usually 4 mgs.