B-25 loss 5th June,1943 - Luftwaffe and Allied Air Forces Discussion Forum

Smithy · #11 12th February 2018, 11:10

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Originally Posted by Laurent Rizzotti

Still the attached story would be interested. I wonder if the Bf 109 strafed the dinghy or the ditching aircraft.

The text in the pdf more than infers that the 109 strafed the crew after they had exited the aircraft. Whether they were in a dinghy or individually in the water who knows:

"After leaving the plane the survivors were strafed by one ME-109 until the bastard expended all of his ammunition"

This would also seem to suggest that the 109 may have made more than one strafing run.

If true it's fairly callous behaviour at best.

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