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Description
Mr. Kondra describes one risk of flying, a near head-on collision with a German Messerschmidt 109. He describes the German pilot's skill in avoiding the fire of his crew's mid-upper gunner.
Transcription
We were doing night bombing and danger of attack from head on wasn’t that great but a Messerschmidt just about collided with us over the target and he saw us at the last second and he pulled up but a few more seconds and he would have collided with us but he pulled up and he knew that there was a mid upper gunner in our position so I hollered to the mid upper that there was an enemy fighter above but he also knew that he had to get away from there so he just did a roll and disappeared before our gunner could spot him but it was unusual for a fighter to come head on like he did at us and he many not have seen us well it was a good thing he saw us at the last second because he would have collided with us.
Catégories
Near Collision With An ME-109
Médium
Video
Propriétaire
Veterans Affairs Canada
Guerre ou mission
Second World War
Campagne
Northwest Europe
Personne interviewée
William Kondra
Branche
Air Force
Unité ou navire
101 Squadron
Military Rank
Flying Officer
Occupation
Bomb Aimer
Durée
1:29