Fighter Command 1936-1968 by Ken Delve

Author:Ken Delve
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781783408696
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2013-05-29T16:00:00+00:00

He attacked a second Dornier but with similar results and the exhaustion of his cannon ammunition. A sortie later in the day resulted in the destruction of an Fw 190 courtesy of the ideal set-up of sneak-up and shoot without being seen.

I don’t think the Hun pilot saw me for very conveniently he turned to starboard, which enabled me to give him a 3-second burst from 150 yards and he went down on fire into the sea.

Plt Off Bob Large was airborne in a Spitfire VI of 616 Squadron on 2 October 1942 when he claimed an Fw 190 over St Omer. His combat report stated:

. . . as we were leaving the target area I reported about a dozen Fw 190s about 6,000ft below us, proceeding north-west, and as the Squadron Commander had apparently not seen the E/A, I announced that I was going down. When about 800 yards away from the E/A the formation broke up in all directions and I closed in on a straggler, who broke to starboard. I opened fire at about 500 yards range, but as he turned sharply I pulled the nose of my aircraft ahead of him, blotting out the E/A from view and firing one 5-second burst and then allowing the nose of my aircraft to fall, to see the results of my fire. The E/A was diving very steeply to the NE with his port undercarriage leg hanging down and brown smoke pouring from him. Bright flashes were coming from the starboard side of his engine, which afterwards developed into flames. I continued to turn as other E/A were threatening Cooper and myself. I fired the remainder of my ammunition in a head-on attack on an Fw 190. FS Cooper came into line abreast, up sun, to my port wing and we recrossed the French coast north of Cap Griz Nez, being attacked most of the way out.

I warned FS Cooper of an attack from below and ordered him to break. FS Cooper was hit in the radiator but did not realise it and I told him that glycol was pouring from the radiator. FS Cooper baled out off Sangatte about 5 miles out to sea, and after 2 Fw 190s had made a final attack on me, they turned back to France. I remained with FS Cooper, giving Maydays, until I had to leave him owing to shortage of fuel, and returned to Hawkinge.

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