History - Dogfights No Room For Error

On July 26, 1944, Lt. Art Fiedler has the number four slot in a flight of P-51Ds, tasked with performing long-range bomber escort. The bombers are jumped by 64 Fw190s, the most feared fighter in the German arsenal. Fiedler wings over and dives on the attacking Germans, breaking their attack and initiatinge a wild, swirling dogfight that tumbles its way toward the earth. Fielder claims two kills in the intense, low-level fight. But in doing so he witnesses first hand the grim and grisly reality of low-level dogfighting.

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