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Posted on 12/22/14 at 2:34 pm to White Roach
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OhFace and/or Terd:
What's the story on the near shoot down of Patton's plane by the RAF? I haven't heard about that before.
There's not a lot of information out there on it. All I've found is that his Piper Cub...
Was attacked by a group of Spitfires....
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The other “accident,” just a few weeks before, on April 10, 1945, is even more suspicious. Patton was visiting units in his light observation plane when four Polish Spitfires supposedly mistook his tiny aircraft for a Nazi fighter and attacked it. While three circled and acted almost as lookouts, the fourth Spitfire made repeated attacks. If not for the ground hugging and evasion skills of Patton’s pilot, the general surely would have been killed. As it was, the attacking Spitfire couldn’t pull up after one of its steep diving attacks and crashed. The Russians by that time controlled Poland. Patton was livid, and an aide accompanying him in the plane vowed to find out what happened. But to this day, there is scant information about the attack beyond what both wrote in their diaries.
I guess it's "possible" they mistook his aircraft for a similar German aircraft, the Fleischer Storch...
This post was edited on 12/22/14 at 2:37 pm
Posted on 12/22/14 at 3:29 pm to White Roach
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What's the story on the near shoot down of Patton's plane by the RAF? I haven't heard about that before.
After he was promoted to four star general he was flying to american occupied portuon of germany i believe. Came face to face with a RAF spitfire that had polish markings on it. The spitfire chased them down and ended up getting out manuevered by patton's pilot. Records showed that the closest polish spitfire base was out of range from where the attack happened. It also showed that all polish fighter pilots were accounted for. There was a couple hundred spitfires that were donated to russia that some believe accounted for this attack.
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