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The "Curtiss" were maybe Blackburn Skua from the Royal Navy.
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Already, speaking about Hurricane. In August 24, the Sgt Antoni Glowacki, a Polish pilot flying with the 501 Sqn and utilising his prefered Hurricane, the SD-A(VZ234), destroy in three sorties this day, three Bf 109s and two Ju 88s over Ramsgate area. Top skill, ace in a day, seven kills all together and counting.
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Or the other ace of the Battle of Britain, James Harry "Ginger" Lacey. Flying Hurricanes with the 501 Sqn he accounted for 18 kills in the Battle, including 3 Bf 109s, a fourth damaged and one He 111 the Sep 15, 1940. In one of this sorties this day with his Hurricane engaged no less of 12 Bf 109, destroying two and escaping into clouds. Also, the 13th he had shot down one of the He 111 from KG 55 raiding Buckingham Palace. And all that with the old good Hurricane.
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Another bad and very triste day for the JG 2: 28 Nov, 1940.
This day the Jagdgeschwader loss his Kommodore Maj Helmut Wick, a young and very skilled pilot with 55 victories at the time of his dismisse. A burst of Spitfire killed him instantanly. As related by Lt Erich Rudorffer at the number 4 in this mission, the Bf 109 continued to flight, no smoke, no fire but prived of control plunged in the Channel. |
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"Wick was seen to bale out of Bf 109 E-4 (W.Nr. 5344) “Black < - + -“ over the Channel, " http://www.luftwaffe.cz/wick.html http://www.acesofww2.com/germany/aces/wick.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Wick Sokol1 |
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Yes, I know the other versions. But the testimony of Rudorffer is the more accurate. He had saw a short distance the Bf 109, the chevrons of Wick at the fuselage and also he had identified and recognized Wick behind his oxigen mask. His testimony after his flight log, with the exact hour of depart, the exact terrain of depart(Cherboug-Querqueville), the search flight under orders of Göring at 16.30 and many other details make all the difference.
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