Aircraft brought down by "Neutral" countries.
We all know that Switzerland fired on both Axis and Allied aircraft. Has anyone heard of any other neutrals or any others doing the same thing?
Tte Miguel Entrena Klett of the Spanish EJERCITO DEL AIRE Grupo 27 claimed 1 Lockheed P-38 "Lightning", 12th United States Army Air Force, on 3 March 1943 while flying He-112 (5.68). From what I can find so far the story goes that Klett came upon 11 US P-38s inside Spanish airspace. He attacked out of the sun and made a diving pass on the trail-end aircraft. ]He made several hits with the 20mm gun as he was out of ammunition for his wing machineguns.The plane started trailing smoke and was forced down in Algeria along the Border of French Algeria and Spanish Morroco.
The translation from some of the Spanish sites to English really sucks LOL. Im not sure but I think they were being ferried to Algeria and not carrying ammunition. Which if they had would sure have changed the outcome LOL. another incident claimed was a PBY Catalina strafed by a Fiat CR.32. Does anyone have addional info on these incidents?
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