Inadequate Intelligence

Interviewer: Were you aware of some of the names of the German pilots? No. They never told us. One of the things that was very bad about our intelligence was that about the Huns, the air force, was doing, Hun Air Force. Luftwaffe. You always knew about the army, which we could see too. And where our troops were and what troops were over there. But they only might say where the air field, but they didn’t know who was on the air field or what they were doing. We didn’t know that from, you know flying over, if they had fighters on it or others. We never really had enough information about that or who was in the air. But there was every indication to us after a while that, you know, after six months of flying that there were some real hot shots here. Really hot shots. It’s like being a, if you get a chance, we very seldom had a chance to attack but if you did, you had one thing on your mind: this is going to be a good attack, see, because if I miss, that might be a real hot shot there. We seen this happen, see.