Author Topic: Rare Spit 9, just for the Rooks (Read 1531 times)

Guppy35 · « **Reply #15 on:** August 30, 2004, 02:51:41 PM »

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Originally posted by lasersailor184
Damn. Now I'm curious to what the Ju86p looks like.

Ask and you shall recieve

Dan/Slack

Krusty · « **Reply #16 on:** August 30, 2004, 03:24:58 PM »

I think your caption is wrong, however. They were photo recon birds. No bomb load. Thus they could not have "attacked" from 40,000 feet. Only intruded.

Kev367th · « **Reply #17 on:** August 30, 2004, 03:30:38 PM »

Hmmmm, slight discrepency here somewhere.

Interviews with both pilots resulted in this -
The whatever it was German plane jettisoned his bombs.
Galitzia got one cannon round hit on its wing.
Combat reports state altitude was around 43000ft

Guppy35 · « **Reply #18 on:** August 30, 2004, 03:37:37 PM »

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Originally posted by Kev367th
Hmmmm, slight discrepency here somewhere.

Interviews with both pilots resulted in this -
The whatever it was German plane jettisoned his bombs.
Galitzia got one cannon round hit on its wing.
Combat reports state altitude was around 43000ft

A few Ju 86R were converted to carry a single 550KG bomb. On August 38, 1942 one of the Ju86Rs dropped it's bomb on Bristol, killing 48 people and injuring many others.

The pilot of the Ju86R on the flight were Galitzine intercepted it, was Horst Goetz, with observer Erich Sommer.

Goetz and Galtzine met after the war. Goetz mentions jettisoning his bomb. Galitzine in his combat report mentions the Ju86 jettisoning it's bomb as well.

Galitzine also specifically mentions being at 44,000 feet in the combat report.

Dan/Slack