359 FG dogfight with Russian fighters?

[kolya1]

Originally Posted by Skyraider3D

Knowing one of the 359th FG pilots who was involved in the incident, I feel "trigger happy" is a bit of a short-sighted way of looking at it.

Of course, by use the expression "trigger happy", I didn't mean any kind of intention, nor the idea that it was linked to the score.

Simply that such incidents happened when unknown planes were instantly attacked without sufficient ID, and that was not limited to incidents with the soviets but also between british and americans (Closterman in the last version of his "Big Show" describes at least three incidents between RAF and USAAF), or in other circumstances.

Most probably, such incidents contributed to give birth to the widespread rumors that persisted long after the war that Germany used captured allied airplanes (I can remember espisodes about "german B-17s" or "german P-47s") against their initial owners, while Germany used captured airplanes only for evaluation purposes.