Luftwaffe P51 shot down by US P47 ?

[kaki3152]

Alex,


This is the account from Adorimini:"About 30 miles southwest of Linz,Austria, an early model P-51 (B or C) painted olive drab made an attack out of the clouds on several 95th Sq P-38s,after tailing them for some time...Lt. Coulson turned head on into the P-51 to turn it away...Hwever, on this time, the P-51 opened fire,at a range of of 4,000 feet (sic) and continued firing. Coulson finally fired one short burst and saw strikes on its canopy and engine. The Mustang rolled over,went straight down and crashed into a mountain"
It was noted by the P-38 pilots that the Mustang had no national insignia nor a red spinner which idntified the 15th AFs P-51s. A check with all the Mustang units in Italy confirmed that the plane was not one of theirs