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AMERICAN VOLUNTEER JOINS RAF-BATTLE of BRITAIN
A suspenseful, 394-page World War II air novel about the RAF and the desperate air struggle to save England.
From page 152.
…We were heading north along the channel when we got a call, “Bandits at three o’clock.”
Stocker called me and said, “Break away Iss.” Before the words were out of his mouth four ME109’s were coming right at us! They had left a formation of thirty six planes that looked like they were getting ready to strafe the airfield we just flew over. We were in a bad position. They were above us, diving with their guns blazing.
G.C. pulled back on his stick and went up. I did just the opposite. I dove down directly towards them. That surprised the hell out of them. Once I got under them I pulled back on my stick as hard as I could. I began a loop but part way I flipped the plane over and went into an Immelman maneuver. [Named after a WW 1 German ace, the Immelman is basically a hundred eighty degree maneuver while changing altitudes.] This put me behind my Nazi opponent. Now if I can catch him, I’ll blow his ass out of the sky. I had my throttle wide open and when he saw me he started to weave. …
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