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Show Fortress Pilots Find Germans Easy Like Shooting Squirrels in Arkansas, Says One. WITH THE UNITED STATES ARMY AIR FORCES, Somewhere in England. "Just like shooting squirrels back in Arkansas." That is what tail gunner Sergt. Felix Trice, of Stuttgart, Ark., said of shooting down one of the famed Reichs Marshal Herman Goering squadron's "Yellow Nose" Focke-Wulf Focke-Wulf 190's during the Flying Fortress For-tress raid on Rotterdam. Col. Frank A. Armstrong, commander com-mander of the Fortress squadron, who has led six of their raids personally, per-sonally, said the "Yellow Nose" fighters made futile "suicide attempts" at-tempts" to halt the big bombers' string of successful raids. "I had to pull out of line to keep one from ramming me when we bombed the aircraft factory at Meaulte," Colonel Armstrong said. They tried to stop us at all costs. Fighters sprang up from everywhere like mushrooms when we crossed the coast . . . They sent about 150 up 100 at our fighter escort and 50 at us." The next day, when the Fortresses encountered the "Yellow Nose" squadron again on the Rotterdam raid, Sergeant Trice was credited with bagging the only Focke-Wulf 190 he has had a chance to shoot at in eight flights over occupied Europe. Eu-rope. "He came up to about 175 yards and I just let him have it," the young gunner said. "It wasn't even as exciting as the time I shot my first squirrel back in Arkansas." Upper turret gunner Sergt. Christy Chris-ty Faith, 23 years old, of Hagers-town, Hagers-town, Md., who also shot down a Focke-Wulf 190, said: "I let fly and he burst into flames and went down In a spin." |