Here is another aside which I would like to add to the thread.
During the combat on 8 June I flew at very high speed very close to one of the pilots in a parachute that Dave Morgan had just shot down.
It is a fleeting memory but I think it was on my left side by about fifty metres or so. I was doing in excess of 600 knots so it was just a flash of memory.
I seem to remember a few days later doing another CAP in the same area and hearing a distressed call in Spanish on the military guard frequency.
I always wondered if this was the same fellow in his dinghy or stuck on a remote island somewhere.
Can anyone add any information to this?
There is no doubt I passed someone in a parachute. Has his body ever been recovered?
I know that all the guys we shot down on that day perished. However, I most definitely saw one of them in a parachute.
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