Another bad and very triste day for the JG 2: 28 Nov, 1940.
This day the Jagdgeschwader loss his Kommodore Maj Helmut Wick, a young and very skilled pilot with 55 victories at the time of his dismisse. A burst of Spitfire killed him instantanly. As related by Lt Erich Rudorffer at the number 4 in this mission, the Bf 109 continued to flight, no smoke, no fire but prived of control plunged in the Channel.
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