249 at Malta: Raf's Top-Scoring Fighter Squadron by Brian Cull & Frederick Galea

Author:Brian Cull & Frederick Galea [Cull , Brian]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781781555545
Publisher: Fonthill Media
Published: 2017-06-02T04:00:00+00:00

He promptly went into a vertical dive. I followed him, caught him as he was pulling out of his dive at 2,000 feet and, getting dead behind him, gave him a long burst. He hung there for a second, rolled on his back, and hit the sea. As he crashed I saw another aircraft spin into the sea half a mile away. As I thought it might be one of our boys, I called up the others, and Ronnie [West] told me he had just shot down one of the Eyeties. The one Johnny [Gilbert] had hit force-landed at Zonqor Point, and it was then we learned that the Eyeties had not been Macchis, but Reggiane 2001s.

The force-landed Reggiane had been flown by Tenente Remo Cazzolli, the leader of the 152ª Squadriglia flight, who recalled:

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