You know, fighter pilots are a strange breed. And World War II pilots certainly were the strangest of the breed. Not only did we have P-38 pilots looping the Golden Gate Bridge back in the states, but we had P-47 pilots flying so low in their strafing runs that there are several recorded instances of them striking tree tops, flying back to Britain with lengths of telephone wire dangling from their ac....and one instance of a P-47 flying back to jolly ole England, with the propeller of the Fw 190 that he had shot down stuck in the side of his fuselage.
Guess that one was a confirmed kill