Convoy Duty near Malta
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Convoy Duty near Malta
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One night we were on convoy duty and we were protecting,
so called protecting, this convoy. Came daylight about,
I don't know, 6 o'clock in the morning I guess.
The pilot, a little Scotchman by the name of Jock Young, decided,
"Let's have a look at this thing, we've been with it all night."
And of course we couldn't see it in the dark, no lights.
We got a little too close I guess. So the next
thing I know we hear, "Whump!" And they put a shell
up between the fuselage and the engine.
So he said, his language he used wasn't for print,
so he said we'll go home. We did.
Just when we landed the horn was blowin'. It was an air raid.
Two Spitfires went up after these German fighters, I never saw
two Spitfires come down so fast in all my life.
They killed them, two guys got killed immediately, and
what they were after was that convoy.
And if they of had, I was sitting in the tail half asleep,
and if they'd have caught us out there.
If the lead ship, the old boy leading the convoy hadn't a
shot at us, we would have stayed for another maybe half hour.
So when they shot at us, we decided to go home.
I guess the good Lord was watching us because I wouldn't
be talking to you now if we'd of been out there because there was
about six of them, some of Germany's top fighters. They would
have had a picnic with me, oh yeah, they'd a had a ball.
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