In all, his planes were shot down two or three times.
Their plane was shot down between 15 and 16 March 1944.
When I was 4, my mother told me his plane had been shot down in combat.
However, the attack failed as the plane was shot down.
If the plane had been shot at, she said, it could have endangered the public.
He said there was no indication the plane had been shot down.
There is a general belief that the plane was shot down.
Major Birmingham said he did not believe that a plane had ever been shot down under the policy.
Two minutes later the second plane was shot down 5,500 yards from her stern.
After his plane was shot down over France early in 1917, he became a prisoner of war.