Originally Posted by
WHBM
... Raymond Baxter ... was, of course, a WW2 Spitfire pilot and did some significant things with it at the time.
I know this is thread drift in adding my comments, but recall vividly an interview with RB in, I think, the late 1970's when he recounted how he and some other Spitfires in Western Europe were flying towards a forest clearing when a V2 lifted off right in front of them. He remarked that one of his colleagues managed to get a shot in that missed or, as he remarked, none of them would be here today. He mentions the incident briefly in his biography, although without the shooting comment.