Thread: Spitpics : Robert Stanford-Tuck's Spitfire after being shot down 28th Jan '42
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Default Spitpics : Robert Stanford-Tuck's Spitfire after being shot down 28th Jan '42
"Dave Kearton" wrote in news:kdoPh.152536
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His biography mentions that one his rounds actually
went down one of the guns of the flak battery that
shot him down and split the barrel apart. The soldiers
were so impressed they were more civil to him than was
usually the case.