Hatton plaintively asked Soluch airfield for a radio fix; it was slightly past midnight. Even as Hatton sent his calls into the ether, Col. Compton and his radio crew at Soluch heard the sounds of an airplane passing overhead. It has been alleged that they ignored Hatton for fear of attracting the attentions of any German night fighters. The airplane that they heard passing overhead was probably a B-24-and a B-24's engines sounded quite different from those of the Junkers Ju-88 night fighter. For the Ju-88's two engines were unsynchronized and made a very distinctive sound.
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