Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/15

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Subject: [Leica] Re: There's something about German design ...
From: marcsmall at comcast.net (Marc James Small)
Date: Mon Jan 15 18:43:12 2007
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At 08:27 PM 1/15/2007, Douglas Sharp wrote:
 >1st fighter group records report that the P-38 piloted by Guy J Thomas
 >of the 94th was shot down in their first encounter with an ME262  26
 >November 1944

Thank you, Douglas.  Could you digest your post 
to point out exactly what you are suggesting, and 
could you provide a source other than an 
operations report.  (Operations reports are 
notoriously inaccurate.  Read the USN and 
Japanese Operations Reports for Midway for examples of raw wishful thinking.)

Again and again.  To my knowledge, no confirmed 
kill was ever credited to an ME-262.  Given that 
more than 1,400 of them entered service, this 
seems odd, but the doctrine was so fatally flawed 
and the pilots flying them so raw, that it is 
surprising any of them ever took off.

Marc


msmall@aya.yale.edu
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