19-Year-Old Shoots Down Messerschmitt
(Hec. 12.30 p.m.) RUGBY, May 25. Describing the destruction of a German fighter-bomber over the Channel, the Air Ministry news service states that two Hurricanes met 11 Messerschmitts a few hundred feet above Calais before breakfast this morning, and a few moments later one Messerschmitt crashed into the sea. The successful Hurricane pilot is a sergeant aged 19. After shooting down the Germans he went into a cloud and emerged to find himself stalking a cluster of Messerschmitt 109 s. He fired at one in a right-hand turn and shot the wing tip off. When last seen the enemy was staggering back into the cloud badly damaged.
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Northern Advocate, 26 May 1941, Page 4
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