16-084 M14 picture of the Day

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Originally Posted by CINDERS

That he did he was faced with a quad 20mm spitting death at him as he came in for a crash landing on a dead engine, when he got out from his cockpit the Germans came running at him after putting a rifle round through the Spifire's fuselage as he stood there, he thought they were going to kill him instead they took him over to the AA gun hooting and laughing patting him on the back whilst clambering over their dead and shattered comrades on the piece saying "Goot shot Englander".
Robert could not understand the detachment the Germans had for the dead crew of the gun that his accurate fire had literally shredded the life out of them.

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Post Script ~ Sorry Bob W not trying to be a kill joy but it was a quad 20mm flak gun he silenced I rechecked the book Fly for your life By Larry Forrester Page 308 has the relevant info on his capture and the event in bursting the barrel on the flak gun.

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Not a problem. I was working from memory and too lazy to go upstairs and grab my copy. ;)

Bob

From memory he ended up in Colditz along with Bader who had been there a while before Tuck's arrival.

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Originally Posted by CINDERS

From memory he ended up in Colditz along with Bader who had been there a while before Tuck's arrival.

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He did indeed. Knowing his shooting technique, I've always wanted one of those Supermarine Spitfire gyros you can find on eBay because that was the last thing Tuck looked at before he took a shot to make sure he wasn't in a slip. I should have snagged one when they were priced at $35.

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My uncle flew Spits for the RCAF and died in a training accident.

Bob

Thought I would share with you B W some of the books I have read most of them others have been stored away. Flipped the shelves to make hopefully reading the titles a bit easier slowly trying to turn them into hard covers with DW's & 1st Ed. a slow costly affair.

I worked with a guy who flew Spits in the Battle of Britain (Maurice Summers). He had a pronounced limp because the calf muscle on one leg was missing. I asked him how it happened and he related that his plane was badly shot up, and as he pulled out of a dive, both wings came off. He opened the canopy and stood on the seat to bail out, but one foot slipped off and wedged between the seat and the fuselage. Try as he might, he could not pull it out as the plane nosed over like a dart. In desperation, he stuck his rump out into the slipstream and pulled the ripcord... the chute inflated and yanked him out, minus his left calf.

His brother "Mutt" was a test pilot for the Spit.

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Originally Posted by CINDERS

Thought I would share with you B W some of the books I have read most of them others have been stored away. Flipped the shelves to make hopefully reading the titles a bit easier slowly trying to turn them into hard covers with DW's & 1st Ed. a slow costly affair.

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I don't see Wild Blue in that mix. :)