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What is the greatest height at which an aircraft has been shot down by AA fire (or AAA if you are American)?
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In Aug 1944 I was working on a farm by Bognor Airfield and I saw an aircraft shot down by AA fire over Portsmouth.After the war I read that it was an Me109 PR aircraft escorted by two FW190s intent on photographing damage from V1s and that it was hit at either 37,000 or 39,000ft.As the Royal Artillery does not claim the record it was almost certainly a naval gun as they were definitely capable of reaching that height. But the problem is noone seems to know anything about it.
In Aug 1944 I was working on a farm by Bognor Airfield and I saw an aircraft shot down by AA fire over Portsmouth.After the war I read that it was an Me109 PR aircraft escorted by two FW190s intent on photographing damage from V1s and that it was hit at either 37,000 or 39,000ft.As the Royal Artillery does not claim the record it was almost certainly a naval gun as they were definitely capable of reaching that height. But the problem is noone seems to know anything about it.
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