 On 17 August 1943 Specht led the group from Gilze en Rijen on an intercept and sighted the B @-@ 17 Flying Fortresses of 381 Bombing Group near Antwerp . He waited for 30 minutes until the escorts turned back at Eupen before attacking . Within the next half hour , sixty percent of the bombers went down . Specht himself was credited with downing two as his 16th and 17th victories . 
