I come up and around in a sort of loop in a non-vertical plane...and find myself behind my erstwhile attacker, who now appears to be making a run for it.



He's moving fast, but at full boost, I catch him up and let him have it.



I expect the 110 to wilt under my fire, but I seem to get few hits and he slips out of my way. I pull up and around, searching for him along his original track.



Ack Ack bursts lead me to another 110...or is it the same one? Hard to tell, but anyway, a Hun, is a Hun, is a target.



Before I can get into range, the 110 rolls over on his back and goes down steeply.



As I watch, he flicks out of control, wobbles, and spins out of the sky. I watch suspiciously, but he's much too low to recover and smacks into the deck, right next to what looks like a barn.



I clear my tail smartly and call the boys to order, but there's no response. I recall hearing a fair bit of chatter on the R/T, including at least one chap announcing he was going home. I turn on the TAC but there's nothing to see, apart from the fact I'm being advised to put down at the nearest airfield, Rochford.



Looking around, there's not much to see, except the scenery.



I don't see any particular reason to run to Rochford, but bank in that direction, anyway. Behind me, dark clouds are beginning to form.



The lack of company is becoming rather ominous. I slow down and lose height, but nobody catches up.



The skies behind me are cloudy, but clear of aircraft, friend or foe.



I reach Rochford but decide not to land there. I'm too impatient to find out what happened, to fly back to Hornchurch. So I call it quits and check the detailed debriefing. It's not a pretty picture.



Red 2 got a Hun, but he won't be coming back. Likewise, two others have bought it, and only one Spitfire - not my own - is undamaged. I sort of scared one Hun out of the sky so there's that, but it's small consolation.

Bit of a disaster, really!

PS I don't know why Blue 1's aircraft type is shown as 'unknown'. But I do know that my own shooting wasn't as bad as the numbers above suggest. After my last attack, having paused the action when firing (to take a screenshot), the guns were still going when I unpaused, despite the trigger having been released, and I had to press and release it a second time to stop them spraying lead all over the sky!