I was in my own group for this one, not flying with the JG11 guys in 109's. but as I am reading this, in my mind I can hear Stampf "OK boys line it up... LINE ABREAST KILL EM ALL NO LOSES Get em from the TOP DOWN That's IT That's IT!"
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We thought we would have a lot more trouble with the P-38's than we did. I was torched 3 or 4 times by a P-38 with lazer kills seemingly at 1000-800k by my sighting.
Anyway the crux of our dominance during the dogfights was Stampf by way of his inspiration and instruction before each fight.. A big salute to Stampf, who, looking good in his cheerleader outfit, with those 20mm pom poms
, set us up prior to each engagement. His comments and instructions before every contact went something like, "OK, here we go boys. Stay together, stay close. Remember top down. Start high and push them down. Help each other out and control the fight,"
A constant reminder of our mission vow - which was to decimate Allied fighters every time, everywhere - as we thought we would lose on points to the B26's and A20's. We simply wanted the Allies to know that fighter to fighter they lost regardless of the final score.
The results, aside from the fighter scores, were due to either or both, bad planning by Allied command and/or bad execution. Evidenced by our continuous puzzlement over why the Allies kept bombing A1 (not a designated target) repeatedly.
The Allies battle plan just seemed to come apart. I know that had a number of command issues, etc. But their fighter pilots fought well, but just flew into the wrong places at the wrong time.