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The Germans Couldn’t Kill America’s Top Ace in 3 Years — Friendly Fire Did It in 3 Seconds



For three years of war, the Luftwaffe tried—and failed—to kill him.

Major George Preddy was the most lethal P-51 Mustang ace America ever produced. Calm, aggressive, and unstoppable in combat, he became a nightmare for German pilots across Europe. They threw everything at him.

Nothing worked.

On Christmas Day, December 25, 1944, Preddy—commanding officer of the 328th Fighter Squadron—was flying low over Belgium, hunting German fighters at treetop level. Moments earlier, he had destroyed two more enemy aircraft, pushing his total to 26.83 confirmed kills, the highest of any P-51 pilot in history.

Four months before, he had shot down six German fighters in a single mission, earning the Distinguished Service Cross. The U.S. Navy had rejected him three times for being too small.

The Luftwaffe never found a way to stop him.

But as Preddy chased a Fw 190 through low clouds, American anti-aircraft gunners, unaware that a friendly Mustang was in the kill zone, opened fire.

It took three seconds.

The enemy who had hunted him for years never landed the fatal blow.
Friendly fire did.

This is the true World War II story of how America’s greatest Mustang ace survived everything the enemy could throw at him—only to be lost to war’s cruelest irony.

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