Né le 17 mars 1917
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Lieutenant Colonel

1 victoires homologuées
1 avion ennemi endommagé

Just north of Oldenburg we were jumped by two ME 109's from the down side. My No. 2 man told me to break. Since the E/A were not yet in range, I asked him to wait so the E/A would not gain on us and secure a good deflection shot. His radio apparently was bad and he did not hear me and broke to the left, so I followed him in the turn. One ME 109 immediately went down while the other kept coming in. My No. 2 man dove on the 109, which broke down; and I engaged the one which was at my altitude. He hesitated and I began to close on him rapidly in a half turn. I fired a 1/2 second burst from 90° and closed into 30°, when he did a split 'S' down. I followed him in his dive vertically down and he would roll first to one side, then the other. The encounter started at 27,000 ft. At about 20,000 ft. I noticed that the second ME 109 had disengaged my No. 2 man and climbed up and around and was starting to come in on my tail. I broke to the right and made a 360°. I noticed several puffs of smoke from around his cowling and he did a split 'S' and went down. I followed him down and got in a few additional 1/2 second bursts, but noticed no further results from these shots. The ME 109's both turned toward home so I pulled out of my dive at 2,000 ft. and crossed the enemy coast north of Emden. Definite locations of points was impossible due to 10/10 overcast.