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Dear Father: We had a grand day on Friday with three patrols. On the first we had a glorious dogfight with about nine Messerschmitt nos which caught a proper pasting. I must admit that they were heavily outnumbered. On the second trip we had an uneventful brush with some Messerschmitt 1095. It was the last trip which was the most fun. About twelve Junkers type 88 bombers came in and, after losing two from anti-aircraft fire, were set on by some Hurricanes. As we climbed up to them we had the pleasure of seeing one dart past us, hotly...
...identity withheld) in Britain recently visited a station of the Fighter Command on a quiet day and was invited to take a turn over the field in a Spitfire. With R. A. F. escort, the American went aloft, was churning peacefully over the countryside when a group of uninvited Messerschmitts dropped in for a dog fight. The R. A. F. flew off to fight. In the interests of neutrality, the lone American streaked for the field, was gleefully pursued by a pot-hunting Nazi. When the bullets began to zip past him, the American abandoned neutrality, flipped over his plane...
...reply to the Messerschmitt fighter-bomber was an improved model Hurricane mounting twelve machine guns instead of eight in its wing-edge. As described, one burst from its dozen guns is enough to chop up an enemy plane...
...When a Messerschmitt plane fell out of a dogfight, missed his country home by inches, "most-bombed" U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Joseph Patrick Kennedy, father of nine children, declared: "Bombing ... as far as it interrupts the night's rest ... is nothing new to married men who, like myself, have many children...
...Isle of Wight, a Messerschmitt plummeted straight down a well...