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Old 24 June 2009, 07:58 AM #3 (permalink)
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... Schoenbeck mentioned in The Aces Talk book, ( Ed Sims), that they flew over enemy lines very frequently.
You're mayby right. But MvR was flying alone, chasing is prey, not seeing that he was too low and too far *behind' enemy lines... As we know: it was one singel shot that killed him. One single shot too much!

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