Re: Sonderkommando Elbe
what are you talking about ? My comments concern the year of 1945 and the hopelessness the LW Kommandeurs and younger pilots felt day after day going up in the air facing enormous odds knowing full well they could be taken out at the slightest whim by the might of the US AF escort fighter protection, even getting through the heavy bomber formation was bad enough but then trying to zoom away and then being latched on by 3-7 P-51's, possibly even more .............. good luck. I can only imagine my cousins thoughts during his flight through the 491st bg B-24's and finally shot down by 355th fg Mustangs and killed ......
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