I was on a quiet patrol in my Spitfire when I suddenly recieved a distress call from our fleet. They were being attacked by German bombers. I wasn't far from their location, so I rushed over there as fast as I could. It wasn't long before I saw the AAA from our, fleet shooting at the diving German bombers. It seemed like the air was filled with millions of sparks, but the bombers just continued their attack run. I was still too far away to target any of the bombers, but I realised I had to move quickly to save our ships. I pushed the stick forward and dived down on the bombers at a very step angle. I saw the hands of the airspeed indicator spin rapidly and my whole airplane started to shake. I had to pull up to decrease my speed. Otherwise, the whole plane could fal apart... But then I saw the bomber in the corner of my left eye. It was slightly smoking from one engine, but it didn't look like it was breaking off the attack. I immediately knew our courses would cross at just the right moment. It was the highest delection angle I had ever experienced, almost 90 degrees. Instinctively I opened fire with all my guns and cannons and gave her all I could.
My very short, but well aimed burst caused one explosion at the bottom side of the fuselage. I didn't see any other damage before I pulled up from my high speed dive, so I thought the bomber would still be flying towards it's target. I made a wide turn until I had the bomber back in my sights. My eye found it again just in time to see it's left engine come off in a big ball of fire. The bomber itself was smoking badly. My short pass had been more effective than I initially thought...
Only moments later the right engine gave up as well. The left engine fire probably had spread to the left wing fuel tank, as there were big flames coming from almost the full length of the wing now.
The bomber was rapidly losing altitude. I kept following it at a safe distance. Suddenly the right wing catched on fire too and now the whole bomber was engulfed by huge flames. The sight was as great as it was terrible.
Seeing it like this, I decided to put the bomber out of it's misery and I dived down on it again, aiming for the left wing.
With another short burst, the entire wing came off and the bomber crashed into the sea.
In the mean time, other fighters had arrived. They, and the naval AAA, had taken care of all the other bombers! We had lost some ships, but at least the Germans wouldn't come back soon to try this again!
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