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Old March 15th, 2008, 04:45 PM
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Default Re: Flying Rams and Air to Air Ramming
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Originally Posted by Erich View Post
lol ? what's that about ?

100 plus Elbe a/c were to take part, only around 50 took off and engaged for whatever reasons, turning back, not finding the bombers etc, not finding the bombers and pursued and eliminated by US escorts, in that case about 50 took part over 77 plus German pilots were shot down KIA or MIA, wounded for various reasons as part of the complete total of losses for the date. The "Elbe" faction was only a part of the days battle on the 7th of April
Just that I find it funny that so far most of the sources state a number of "53" aircraft .
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