First Combat by David Pentland. PER315 September 1945

September 1945

In August 1965

Having made one head-on attack on one of the Bf

Initially mistaking a lone Sherman of US 7th Armoured Division as that of his own commander

First Combat by David Pentland. PER315 September 1945DP0169. First Combat by David Pentland. Franco German border, 22md November 1939. While flying a routine border Frei Jagd for some reconnaissance Dorniers, eight Me109s of 3. JG2 were engaged by fourteen French Curtiss Hawks of GC II 4. During the ensuing dogfight, the first combat for the Richthofen Geschwader since WW1, two of the French fighters were shot down. The first by Lt Helmut Wick, was flown by the French ace Adjutant Camille Plubeau (14