Walter Gilbert "Dinny" Dinsdale

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First Pickaback Flying Bomb Shot Down by Canadians

London, Aug. 3, 1944 (CP) — The first German pickaback "flying bomb" — incorporating a ME-109 mounted on an explosive-laden JU-88 — to be destroyed in the air fell to a Canadian night fighter pilot and his navigator, the RCAF disclosed tonight.
F/L Walter Dinsdale of Brandon, Man. and P/O Jack Dunn of Winnipeg encountered the new weapon during a recent routine patrol over the Normandy beach-head and sent it crashing to earth, where it exploded behind the German lines.
"It was retribution for Jerry for thinking up such things," Dinsdale said. He described the pickaback as "an awkward thing which lumbered along at about 150 miles an hour."
"I recognized it as a JU-88 but couldn't figure out what the thing on top was," he said. "I thought it was one of their glider bombs mounted a new way." It was on top, mounted between the rudder and main wing."
Dinsdale got the pickaback with his first burst and said that as far as night fighters were concerned the composite planes were "a cinch to shoot down."
He and Dunn are members of the RCAF Cougar squadron flying Mosquitos.

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--- Other Canadian Fighter Pilots ---

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