April 1940 Germans sending bombers to destroy any Allied ships patrolling off the Orkney or Shetland


" Sgt Hallowes ( flying a Hurricane ) had also enjoyed success of a more tangible nature on this sortie, his Heinkel actually crash-landing neatly inside the flarebath back at Wick! Two of the gunners aboard had been killed during the action, and the survivors insisted that they had been shot up by a Spitfire.

" It was the first sign of the Luftwaffe´s " Spitfire snobbery "- there were no Spitfires for miles", commented Townsend in "Duel of Eagles."

From Scandinavian sideshow 1940-45 ( Osprey )

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