5" Rocket vs Zeke

[cactuskooler]

I don't think I've ever heard of anyone doing this outside of our virtual world.

About a third of the way down..
http://home.earthlink.net/~atdouble/~318thFighterGroup.IeShima.html


Cpt. Judge Wolfe 333rd FS 318thFG - Leading ace of the 318th with 9 kills.

"He spotted two "Zekes" with a 4,000 feet advantage, and didn't want to jettison two 5 inch rockets under his wings. He got into a head on attack position and tried them as air to air weapons. Said Wolfe later, "I don't know who was more surprised, him or me!" The Zeke just disintegrated. Wolfe's T-Bolt carried him through the debris cloud for kill number 6."

[M0nkey_Man]

  talk about a nice shot, website is pretty nice to read through too

[Soulyss]

There's a story in the Ospery P-47 aces book (9th and 15th AF) some 390th FS P-47's had just taken off when their airfield was hit by the LW as part of Operation Bodenplatte, Melvin Paisley claimed a 109 destroyed with rockets.