15 April - first P-47 kill in ETO - confirmed, or not?

[Six Nifty .50s]

Originally Posted by Reno

Here's the actual quote from the book: "From times and location Gerald Johnson was convinced that the FW190 he shot down was that which shot up his namesake's P-47. He heard Bob's story and said nothing, although he thought that in the excitment Bob had let his imagination run awy with him concerning the chivalrous German pilot. No such incident was reported from the German side."

Maybe the imagination came from Martin Caidin.

Caidin was a science-fiction writer who also co-wrote a book with Saburo Sakai. Henry Sakaida said when Sakai's memoirs were translated into English, Caidin took more than a few liberties with the truth, and embellished or distorted Sakai's accounts of the war. Some parts of the text amounted to complete fabrication by Caidin.