Guenther Rall bounced a flight of P-47's that he thought would break and scatter, as so often happened early in 1943, when the Jug pilots were relatively inexperienced. He nailed two of them I believe, but to Rall's surprise, they didn't scatter. They came hell-bent-for-leather after him.
It was Hub Zemke's Wolfpack.
Rall lived through the encounter, but had a thumb blown off by a .50 caliber slug. He subsequently suffered an infection that kept him hospitalized and out of action for several months, and may have ultimately saved his life, for he missed much of the deadly combat of the 1943-44 period.
Regards, Shuckins
