bong,marselle ,mccudden ..who else died when they tried to jump from or dead stick land a really heavy glider plane?calling all expertan ,simon,ricky,tiso,smeg,joop,hubsu ,tim..... pop quiz on friday...
maj. woody: Hmmmm. George Preddy, flying P-51s was killed on Christmas Day 1944 whilst on the deck chasing a Focke-Wulf. It was a regrettable friendly-fire incident as he was brought down by American AA-fire. He was an ace with 26.8 kills. Tommy McGuire, flying a P-38 violated a few of his own cardinal rules--during a bounce of Japanese planes--and found himself too low, without sufficient airspeed, and still carrying drop-tanks when his Lightning shuddered, stalled and crashed into the jungle. He was second leading ace in-theatre behind Dick Bong. Some claim it was due to one of the Japanese being a very experienced pilot, and others note that he "almost" saved his plane, as he had pulled-out of the dive, but ran-out of air-space. He was an ace with 38 kills. While not exactly fitting your criteria... Still, the loss of an ace not by enemy fire, so perhaps that will qualify? Tim
tim... i read somewhere he was shot down by a very skilled jap sgt pilot in a ki43...the author of this storie ,ws trying to locate the crash site of mcguires p38 ...a phillipeneo family recover m,s bodie and burried it before the japs got to the wreck,,the family was in possesion of a mans gold ring with blk onyx stone reputed to have belonged to mcguire..
