Udet as the victim

I seem to recall three(?) occasions in which Udet managed to survive mid-air collsions and/or being shot down. Unfortunately, I am presently able to find documentation for only one of these incidents.

On June 29, 1918 while attacking a Breguet he was hit and forced to bail out of a new D-VII from a low altitude.

Can anyone help with Udet's other close calls? Didnt he also have a mid-air collision with a Camel? Also, wasn't he shot down in a Fokker D-III?

Udet does not mention them in his autobiography;
translated as Ace of the Iron Cross. He does
mention a crash after take-off in an Aviatik
in September (1916?)[He is not strong with dates.]
And soon after that he crashed a Fokker (Eindecker?) on take off due to "blocked steering." His plane was hit by bullets from
an SE5(a?) on August 22, 1918 and it set his
ammo on fire causing much smoke but he landed
the plane safely (although the Brit may have
given him up for a gonner.) What do the rest
of you know?

One time Udet had to take to his parachute when his Fokker D-VII caught fire from a faulty gas tank.

Danny Walden

[leo]

He once had to bail out from a Heinkel dive bomber he was testing. The plane was a prototype. Udet did not pay attention when the ship was bing explained to him resulting in his jumping.

Not forgeting his run in with Guynemer in which he could have been shot down and wasn't.

Glad to see the forum hasn't changed in the months i have been away.

Mark