(Prowlus) wrote in news:af6b9634.0406101045.57935331
@posting.google.com:

http://www.super-mystere.net/aaw/planche/pages/44.htm

Check around, there is plenty of reference to a Marauder downing an ME-
323 (I had forgotten it was RAF so can't confirm). Here's the story from
the horse's mouth:-

"Many thanks to Dick Maydwell DSO DFC (who commanded 14 Squadron during
1942/43) for sending me the following excellent "Boys Own" story in
response to my plea in the last newsletter:

Nowadays sportsmen spend a fortune in running a trip to South Africa to
shoot lion, kudu and impala. But in 1943, when our Squadron was stationed
at Protville in Tunisia, my Marauder crew enjoyed a splendid safari in
the Med, with transport, accommodation, guns and ammunition for free -
but watch out for Me109s!

A few days later we were happy to be back on our Med safari. We were
flying at sea-level close to Cape Corse at the tip of Corsica, when we
saw the most enormous aircraft flying towards us. It was a six-engined Me
323. I knew it had two formidable cannons firing aft so I manoeuvred in
front of the enemy aircraft and fired back at him. Soon three engines
were out of action. The huge aircraft lumbered on towards the Corsican
coast, where it crash- landed in a cloud of dust. Luckily for the crew,
it didn't catch fire and no-one was injured as the gun crews and tractor
drivers had all gone to the rear of the aeroplane. We did not shoot them
up on the ground. I have been friends with the pilot of the Me323 for the
last 21 years, but that is another story!

Today I am 90 years old, but I remember all those incidents as clear as a
bell."

http://www.14sqn-association.org.uk/...ers/news2.html



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Drewe
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In a citizen of the world
Than the pride that divides
When a colourful rag is unfurled"