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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.

Fly for your life is an awesome read in fact Tuck like Bader and Al Deere should not have been alive as he himself was involved in a mid air collision whilst training and was trapped in his spinning aircraft which was a bi-plane by the wings folded over the cockpit stopping him from baling out but the spin eventually got rid of the wings allowing him to get out but not before one of the bracing wires which were knife edged whipped across his Rt side of his face laying it open it just missed his Rt eye.
When he landed he poked his finger into his mouth through the flayed flesh felt a wobbly molar so grabbed it through his cheek and pulled it out.
Another amazing feat was he decided to fly alone out across the channel was at low altitude in his Hurricane when he was bounced by 3 ME-109's in his words all was good until his world came to a violent noisey end when cannon shells started crashing into his cockpit "You bloody fool Robert he shouted to himself, alone and low down." in the melee he shot 2 down but had his reflector gun sight smashed the 3rd one was a head on affair each firing at each other.
With no gun sight Robert managed after checking his turn and bank as he always did before opening up landed a good amount of rounds into the approaching enemy aircraft, they both turned from each other heading for home the last Robert saw of that 109 was low and smoking heading for France.
Now that is a man who knew how to fly, imagine nice and sunny calm as you please then 20mm and 7.92 rounds crashing into your aircraft, he did not panic but took them on 3-1 odds and beat them not bad I say not bad at all.....

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.