A 25-year-old pilot-officer, only two weeks on active service, provided one of the war's most remarkable stories, After having battled a formation of German planes over the Channel, he found himself in combat with a Messerchmitt 109 without any ammunition, He therefore flew his plane close to the Messerschmitt, and by manipulating it cleverly, knocked off the tail of the German with his Hurricane's wing, Thereafter he returned to his base, in ite of having lost part of the wing of his plane, and did a success} "pancake" landing, The picture shows the damaged wing of the Hurricane being examined,
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