Bartholomew C. Tenore, was credited with the group's th plane destroyed, on 25 August The th Fighter Squadron on a fighter sweep near Reims, found two formations of about a dozen enemy fighters each and were attacked at low level, 12 were claimed destroyed.
Bart Tenore, who declared that "whole damn thing was like shooting down clay pigeons. White Leader led his flight to the left, attacking a group of s, and I split-S'd onto about 15 Me s. He made a half hearted head-on pass but did not open fire and rejoined the formation, which flew line abreast down a valley.
I opened fire on the first on the right-hand side of the formation and got hits on the fuselage and radiator coolers. He crashed in a wood. I then took on the next ship in the formation and fired dead astern on him. He was flying on the treetops, and as I followed him over a small knoll I saw him hit the ground and explode.
I then moved into position behind a third and got some hits. He crashed in front of me, and I had to pull up to avoid hitting the debris. As I was attacking the third ship, I was flying line abreast with another that Lt. McIntire flew into the ground right next to me.
We tailed the last for a long time on the deck, and I got a few hits with one gun firing. When my guns ceased firing, Lt. McIntire got some hits with his still operating guns. The th Historian put it this way: We have recorded in these pages several Red Letter Days in the history of the Group but now it is time to record a Black Letter Day and this, November 13th, , is it. We were officially informed that the Group would be converted to P fighter-bombers!
