Close Combat by Ivan Berryman. (P) REG9 Spitfire EB-J of Sqn Ldr

Spitfire EB-J of Sqn Ldr Maurice Brown at the height of the Battle of Britain

Nicknamed the gunbus

000 mark ransom was paid

Unlike the RAFs Spitfire and Hurricane

Bake it consisted of Heavy Tank Battalion 503

Close Combat by Ivan Berryman. (P) REG9 Spitfire EB-J of Sqn LdrDHM1858P. Close Combat by Ivan Berryman. Whilst flying with A Flight of 85 Squadron on 30th July 1940, Geoffrey Allard encountered a pair of Messerschmitt Bf. 110s about 40 miles from the coast, apparently patrolling near a convoy. After Squadron Leader Townsend, flying Red 1, had made two unsuccessful attacks, Allard closed to 150 yards and began to fire continuously, eventually closing to just 25 yards, whereupon the starboard engine of the Bf. 110