Shooting down a Macchi

And I saw, I thought it was a 109, and I wasn’t quite sure, actually it was a Macchi because they looked very much the same. They had the same engine, same shape, same size, wings the same. Anyway, so I just turned in behind this Macchi, just off to the right or down below me a little bit and started to fire at him and hit him very quickly and he started, I took I think two bursts at him. I hit him and he was waffling and seeing smoke but he didn’t catch fire so I took another couple of seconds at him and then he started down streaming black and white smoke and he, as he went down, he happened to be really right over Valletta, a big town there, and he was spiralling down all the time and as he got closer to the water, he came just to the left of Fort Saint Elmo in Valletta and the little gap there where you get out of the harbor is really in two parts - a part where you got one part, he was heading right for that and I could see he must have been firing his guns or they were firing by themselves or something because you could see his own cannon shells as he was turning hitting the water corresponding circles to him. Then he just hit the water with a terrific smash, of course, and right in the narrow part of the entrance into and out of that harbor.