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Description
Mr. Wilson describes being mystified by pilots, in sound aircraft, who plummeted from formations and crashed. He finds out that the cause is 'oxygen starvation', and on one sortie experiences its nearly deadly consequences himself.
Transcription
You’d see these planes breaking in formation and just going down, crashing, and you would wonder why and I often wondered, there’s no other enemy around or anything, but now I know it was lack of oxygen, and I lost my oxygen up in Tunisia. I was in high flying Spit 8’s, Spit 9’s. We were up around 33,000 feet and all of a sudden I just dropped out of formation and I lost my sight and I was, felt like I was diving and I’d try and pull it out and then I felt I was stalling and I’d dive again. Finally, when I got down to about 12,000 feet, which is pretty low, my eyesight came back and I was able to correct it and I tried to join up with the Spitfires below and then I thought, well, I better, we were almost home and I thought, well, I better just stay by myself.