1/Lt. Delbert F. Blount
338th FS - 25 March 1944 - 21 July 1944 (Prisoner of War)
| Assigned Aircraft |
P-51D CL-H 44-13807 |
| Mission History |
Not Known |
| Mission List |
Not Known |
| Air Scores |
2-0-1 |
| Ground Scores |
0-0 |
| Score Detail |
21 July 1944 (2)Me-109 destroyed (air) NE Kempton 21 July 1944 Me-109 damaged (air) NE Kempton |
| Notes |
ASN - 0-750521 31 January 1944 - Force-landed P-38 at Leiston, England with battle damage and hospitalized with severely wounded left arm. MACR No. 06846 Capt. Lanoy D. Anderson reported: "Lt. Delbert F. Blount had combat with an Me-109 in the vicinity of 48 degrees north, 10 degrees east in which he expended all his ammunition damaging the aircraft. He was not fired upon by enemy fire. About 15 minutes thereafter he reported that his ship was throwing oil, which covered the windshield, and that he was unable to maintain manifold pressure and engine RPM. He asked the heading to Switzerland and said that he would bail out when forced to do so. I called to Lt. Blount on the R/T and told him to check all his instruments again, and to change fuel tanks, which he acknowledged. I also gave him the heading and time to reach Switzerland. He answered that he was complying with instructions and would try to reach Switzerland. I did not see Lt. Blount's aircraft, the only contact being over the R/T." Lt. Blount was taken prisoner in southern Germany, (German report KUJ 1736). He was interrogated by Hanns Scharff at Oberursel, July 29, 1944, and eventually imprisoned at Stalag Luft I. Reproduced with kind permission of Mr. Robert M. Littlefield from the author's book Double Nickel - Double Trouble |
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