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Dan-San,
I accept your statements as an opinion but if you wish to proof your conviction for a rather sceptical audience you should add a lot more of research work.
Until now it is not possible to say “everything fits”!
1. You said I did provide the proof that Göring did lead a blocking flight that day. Yes, I pointed to Udet´s book but sometimes Udet was writing things in error in his book. Therefore I would prefer to see another report or document reporting Görings flight.
2. Even if Göring was flying this day this is not proving a meeting with the US-pilots.
Some questions arise like: Can we match more than the date? Did the US-pilots report time and maybe a more precise location of the combat with the Red Cross-Fokker? As well it would be niece to find a report with more details about Görings flight (if he was flying at all). If you can not find this kind of report then it is (at least) necessary to limit the time frame for the combat. The come back of Udet and the claims of Jasta 4 give some clue (but only if we assume Udets report in his book is correct).
3. An air combat between Göring and the mentioned two US-pilots is still not the final proof for “Red Crosses” on Göring´s Fokker. Why? There were so many wrong reports and nonsense-claims about the colour or insignia of enemy aircraft in WWI on both sides that reports of two pilots are hardly a reliable proof. Remember that one of the pilots was writing “with what looked like red crosses”. That sounds to me like he was questioning the own observation or he did not trust his own words.
I will not deal with other questions here like names and amount of experience of both US-pilots, weather conditions for this day etc.
I think proving “Red Crosses” for Göring´s Fokker means to do a lot more tough research work and final prove can only provide a trustworthy document or mechanic reporting the mentioned colour of crosses.
Good luck for your research!
VBR
Rammjaeger
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