FREMONT MILLER

Narrative: I was flying Turndown Yellow 3 on a withdrawal support of the bombers. One of the spares from Crown Prince Sq. joined our flight making a five-ship flight. At 25,000 ft at 1330 hours we circled one about 15 mi. SE of Brussels to watch a lone B-17. We then saw two boxes of B-17s still further back at 6 o'clock to them, with our flight almost abreast. From 8-12 FW 190s came in from the left about 9 o'clock to us and started down to bounce the rear of the lower box. The 190s were almost in trail and after the first four went down I called Turndown Yellow Leader, Lt Bryan, and told him I was going down. I took after the fourth one and stayed with him. After he made his pass he fired a short burst at the bombers and pulled up and started turning to the right. Here I closed in enough to take a short burst at the e/a. He half-rolled and started spiraling down. I gave him several short bursts observing strikes all along his left wing and on the fuselage. He quit spiraling and got several good hits around the cockpit; the canopy flew off and the pilot looked as thought he was going to jump out but I kept firing and many more strikes kept going in the cockpit off the wings—the e/a began smoking. Many small pieces blew off the wings. After there was no doubt left about his condition I pulled up and as I was climbing back up I saw him in flames as he went into a cloud at about 6,000 ft going straight down. Too the plane was smoking. I believe the pilot was dead. This combat took place between 15,000 and 18,000 ft. I started back up and at 18,000 ft another FW 190 with a belly tank came up 6 o'clock to me firing. I rolled over and started down and I left him very soon. He didn't get any hits. I started back up again and another FW 190 came down on me from 9 o'clock high. I went into a big cloud and lost him. I came out and picked up two o f my flight and with two other flights of Turndown Sq. came home without further incident. I claim 1 FW 190 destroyed .