CROWDED MOMENTS
DESTRUCTION OF ENEMY BOMBERS.” NIGHT FIGHTER PILOT’S STORY. The terrific rate of living—that is all one can call it —in modern war, is shown in this 8.8. C. talk by a nightfighter pilot. “As I took off, I saw a raider held by the searchlights at a height of 8,000 feet. My target turned towards the sea after dropping its eggs, then I got quite close. I could see from below as clear as daylight, and then I got right behind him' and began to fire. When I was about 50 yards behind, my windscreen became covered in oil from his burst tanks and engines ... he crashed . . . then I looked round for another target. There, way up in the sky, was another bomber held by the searchlights. He was at about 12,000 feet, but it wasn’t long before I- gained his height . . . and then I pressed the gun button. The bullets poured out of my eight guns in five bursts of two seconds each . . . it’s amazing that anything can live through a hail of fire like that ... I saw it crash in open country and burst into flames ... I landed back on my own aerodrome only twenty minutes after I had taken off.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 June 1942, Page 4
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