Flying over a German staff car (2 of 2)

And by this time, July the 17^th, we were not permitted, reconnaissance and our Mustangs heavily armed, to attack targets of opportunity because the decision had been made that we were so valuable in terms of map reading and reconnaissance, all these things, that we should leave the attacking of targets of opportunity, because they were high risk on the ground, we would leave them to Spitfires or the Typhoons. So we were not permitted to attack, by this time the Germans knew immediately that the Mustangs would not attack. So I go along, I see this staff car, it's huge staff car two men at the front, three in the back. I knew it was brass because I could see the glint from the caps and uniforms, but I didn't know who it was. Not permitted to attack I called group control centre on the radio and said "Kenway, there is a staff car preceding south" and I gave them the pinpoint then I left. Well history tells me that what happened was that Kenway contacted two Spitfires, we still don't know who they are, and they came in and shot up the car and the driver was killed. Corporal Daniel. The car hit a stump, of course the top was down, three men in the back seat were thrown out, they weren't injured. The man in the front seat who was doing the map reading was Field Marshall Rommel, and he hit the, when the car hit the stump, his forehead hit the windscreen post, caved it in and he was within an inch of his life. And he was taken to a, a Luftwaffe hospital and he did survive that event but he was out of the war. He was finished. He went to his home in Herrlingen, near Ulm and recuperated. And, but Hitler made sure that he was dead in the beginning of October because Hitler discovered that he was part of, the Gestapo told Hitler that Rommel was a part of the plot to kill Hitler which took place just a few days after this event.