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Series editor Tony Holmes
Front cover
On 5 September 1940 Sgt Alex Hurry
took off from Tangmere on No
43
Sqn's econd scramble of the day in
Hurrican
P3386 FT·E. His
mount on
this day had recently become the
most successful aircraft on the
squadron, having destroyed
12
enemy aircraft in the hands of four
different pilots. During this particular
engagement, Alex Hurry intercepted
and shot
down
a
Bf 109,
whose
destruction was confirmed. His
Combat Report
for this
action
was
very specific, clearly identifying the
location
of the
crash, and thus
the
identity
of the
aero. lane and
its
p
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Combat Report
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wa flying n Blue section a
Blue 3 at 20,000
ft
over 81ggin Hill
when Blue 1 turned and dived. I
followed but lost him in thick haze
and joined up
with
Blue 2 at 0,000
ft
and climbed again
to
r· -join
the
e
squadron.
At 18,.000
ft
at
1605
hr
o· er Maidstone
I
sight· d
some 30-40
v
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Me
109s
heading
west north-west at
15,000
ft.
I climbed into the sun and
gave the Tally Ho!
",
then turned
and dived on to the rear vie of five
enemy aircraft
.
.
During my dive they
turned south and
I
carried out
a
quarter attack on the outer enemy
aircraft. Th length of my burst was
five seconds. The
enemy
aircraft half
rolled and dived and I followed as
the remaining four aircraft were
turning to attack me.
The
enemy
aircraft pulled out at 5000
ft
and flew
south. I caught him again
12
mile
north-west of Dungeness and fired
.
a
burst of ix seconds. He caught fire,
half rolled and dived vertically into
the ground near Appledore Station,
about
ten
mile north-west
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Dungeness. No attempt made at
evasion. Enemy m rkings were dull
green with white wingtip and ilver
(sic) undersurface
.
I did not see the
pilot bale out. The weather was hazy
with 4/10th c'l oud a 17,000
ft.
Vi ibility 12 mile .'
Hurry' victim was Bf 109E-1 Wk-
Nr 3627 of 5./JG 27, flown by
Oberleutnant Helmut Strobl,
ho
was initially posted mi sing
1n
action
by
the
Luftwaffe. The
Me
er chmitt,
along with the remain of Strobl,
were found close to Ap. ledore
p
Station exactly 46 years later on 5
September
1986
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COLOUR P ATES COMMENTARY 124
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