Today In History:  14 August  [1942]   --  Lt Elza Shaham becomes the first USAAF pilot to score an aerial victory in Europe

Flying a Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighter of the 27th Fighter Squadron, Lieutenant Elza Shaham becomes the first U.S. Army Air Forces pilot to score an aerial victory in Europe during World War II when he shoots down a German Focke-Wulf Fw 200C-3 Condor.

PHOTO: Fw 200C-3/U-2 SG+KS (later F8+AB), flown by Ritterkreuz recipient Hauptmann Fritz Fliegel.

See the Historical Aviation Film Unit website at http://www.aviationfilm.com to get a new history tidbit every day.


Photo Attribution:  Public Domain  via Wikimedia.