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Originally posted by Erich Brown:
By D-Day the V-1 should have been fired off during the night. Allied air foces had mastery of the air during the day over the Reich, although 9th A.F. based P-61's did manage to shoot down some 12-15 of these doodle bugs over English air space.
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I've just found out something very interesting [img]smile.gif[/img]
S/L Joe Berry, commander of 501 Squadron RAF, the greatest V1 ace with 61 "kills", shot all of them down at
night, including 7 in just one night.
501 Squadron was a Tempest equipped unit which operated at night, working in partnership with searchlight units.
501 Squadrons other night ace's were, Flight Lieutenants Williams, Robb and Thornton, S/L Parker and Rees and Flying officers Deleuze and Miller.