The Hunted and the Hunter by Ivan Berryman. (B) SIG2642DHM6758B. The Hunted and the Hunter by Ivan Berryman. The attack by Leutnant Walter Briegleb and his crew on Lancaster Mk. III ND960 DX I of No. 57 Sqn early on 22nd May 1944. Flying Me110 with codes D5+BV with his crew of Feldwebel Walter Brunlich and Bordfunker Feldwebel Brandt, Briegleb flew undetected beneath the bomber and used the deadly 'Schrge Musik' upward firing cannon to hit the fuel tanks in the port wing between the fuselage and inner
Captain Eliab Harvey took on the Santisima Trinidad
His armour
but now the gun crews awaited the moment when her double-shotted cannon
continued without interruption until the last days of World War Two
The ingenious armourers of the AVG were often forced to improvise
as the first explodes against the hull of HMS Newcastle
A total of ten Superfortresses fell victim that day
The battle was costly for the British
Just before breaking off the escort Drew spotted a twin-engine German aircraft flying very low to the water
despite heavy losses
heading south to Lashkar Gah
1944 at the start of the Normandy invasion