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When I was searching for information on the other day I came across to the article that originally appeared in the 357th Fighter Group Association Newsletter in 1997 and was re-published at various web sites. It concerns 1/Lt Irving E. Snedecker, its another member that was shot down by AA fire defending the Ruzyne aerodrome on April 17, 1945 (not on April 11, 1945 as mentioned in the text).
He really had a bad luck. After a 20-milimeter shell literally took off the propeller of his Mustang nicknamed "Rovin' Rhoda/4 Bolts" he couldn't but belly-land immediately just next to the runway. The fuselage broke subsequently down in two parts behind the cockpit. According to 1/Lt Snedecker's narrative going back to 1948 when he met his fellow Donald Kochner, he got off, sit down on the ground, lit a cigarette and – waiting for Germans – was watching the group's airplanes flying westwards...
He spent some days in the barracks wihtout any harm – he recalled he had even played with his captors – Luftwafe pilots. Later on he was transferred to Prague where he was placed in a cell with a gunner who bailed out of a bomber that had been also hit on the raid over Bohemia. Both got back to Ruzyne again just before the end of the hostilities when Germans were about to withdraw before advancing Russians. The column of trucks and field kitchens reached safely the demarcation line at unknown point and Germans were taken prisoners.
The full story is available at http://www.cebudanderson.com/prague.htm.
