Howard Hively

A. Combat

B. 19 May 44

C. 334 Fighter Squadron

D. 1815-1830 hours

E. Lubesk-Schwerin

F. 5/10ths low cumulus

G. Me 109

H. 3 Me 109s Destroyed

I. Narrative Leading Gobweb Squadron and about 4 minutes after bombers, the leader of top section on my left reported one aircraft circling on the cloud at 19 o'clock. I told him to go around and I would follow. We started down through two of them in a wide turn with one Mgy in front. The two wing men immediately, with mustangs right behind them, cut him on a string line. I picked him, the almost besides him - for I still wasn't sure - identified Me 109 with green markings on the side of fuselage line return and about 150 yards. He went down streaming black glibberings him from about 150 yards. He went down streaming black smoke, and I circled till he crashed - the first did not pop out. I called in Gobweb for form up, which they did immediately. Blue and Green Sections, who had remained on top to cover us, circled and remained above. The rest of the group when it reached 19,000 feet. I saw Me 109s about 21,000 feet, a mile or so to our 10 o'clock, flying north. This was about O. miles south of Kiel. I told Gobweb to peel up and come, and we went starboard on their tail. They saw us and black smoke poured from them as they tried to establish us. I started to climb but slightly as I called for Blue Section to attack the starboard S, since they were higher, and break them up, which they did. I saw Lt. [redacted] obber the straggler in the starboard S, then the rest broke to the left and down. I was covered with him from the first but I could not see well and lost the port S for a time out. We in a spiral to where I thought they were going. At about 9, feet. I found there two - flying half-rolled, attacked the right one, with very good. Whenever I half-rolled, attacked the right ones, with quite a bit of deflection, both of them pulling up to the left into quite a deflection, both of them pulling up to the left into quite a bit of deflection. Both were pulling up to the left into quite a bit of deflection, both of them pulling up to the left into quite a bit of deflection, both were pulled up steeply to the right and smashed into another on the one who was shot off from the first 109, and had great difficulty seeing. Two one who was hit balled out immediately and then his chute opened and he bailed out of the cockpit. I followed the one who had hit him, still shooting at good deflection with no more hits I could see. He flicked again and what appeared to be his starboard wing flier off, and he bailed out, landing in what I think was Lubesk-Bucht. I climbed back up, tried to reform the squadron without too much shooting and came home by myself. 1206 rounds fired