IMPOSSIBLE ODDS

摘要

For 368th Fighter Group (FG) pilot, 1st Lt. George L. Sutcliffe, what began as a routine mission on June 14, 1944, over Lisieux, France, took an unexpected and unsettling turn for the worse. Just minutes before, he and his fellow 397th Fighter Squadron (FS) pilots were looking for targets of opportunity after they had bombed and strafed their primary target. Suddenly, Sutcliffe found himself isolated from his squadron and trapped in his P-47 down on the deck by 40 Me 109s that had formed two counterrotating lufberrys just below a S,000-foot cloud cover. With nowhere to run or hide, Lt. Sutcliffe would have to hold steadfast against all odds and fight his way upward through his German pursuers and escape to the safety of the clouds-or die trying!