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Title: KG-200 & Tuskegee Airmen
Post by: Herk on Fri 03/05/10 01:59 PM
Doing some research on KG-200 (Luftwaffa WW II) and came across this foot note:

Phantom b-24 anecdote
On a February 1945 741st BS mission against Vienna, "Before reaching the target, a 'phantom' B-24 joined our formation....The P-51s [of the Tuskegee Airmen] came in and over the radio...the German phantom pilot said he was from the 55th Wing and got lost. But the 55th Wing wasn't flying that day and the plane had no tail markings. The fighter pilot squadron leader gave him some bursts from his guns and warned the phantom to turn back. He added, 'You will be escorted.' The German pilot replied that he could make it alone. The P-51 pilot said: 'You are going to be escorted whether you want it or not. You're going to have two men on your tail all the way back and don't try to land in Yugoslavia.'...The phantom left with his escort and we heard nothing further from the event."[10][11]

Erling Kindem

(10) Thomas 2003, pp. 86 - 88.
(11) Graff, Hugh R.; Ramey, Thomas A. & Asch, Alfred. "455th Bomb Group: Flight of the Vulgar Vultures 1943-1945" (html—Smithsonian listing). pp. 141–2.
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