Close look on the IWM Anson showing the extra beam machine-guns.
(Story below)
Chugalug,
The loco in question brought down (?) its attacker in its death throes, but how about this for a David and Goliath tale <
Juhan Sotahistoriasivut - Etusivu / Frontpage>
...So, on 1st June 1940 at 8.34 am BST, P/O Phillip ”Pete” Peters of No 500 (County of Kent) Squadron took off from Detling to led a patrol of three Ansons to Dunkirk to support the evacuation of the BEF. The flight was attacked appr. at 10.40 am BST while flying at 50 feet near Ostend by a bunch of Bf109s, the British thought by 9 Bf 109s, from above. Seeing the two other Ansons take the brunt of the attack Peters ordered them to return to Detling, and dropped even lower and throttled back to make his aircraft, MK-V N9732, a difficult target. The navigator Sgt Deryk Cobham Spencer and the Wireless Operator LAC Pepper moved to man the extra beam guns in the windows of the “greenhouse” cabin. Peters immediately turned to the attack and so skillfully maneuvered his aircraft, that he and both the air gunner and the navigator were enabled to concentrate their fire on the enemy. Two Messerschrnitts were seen to crash, and two more appeared to be seriously damaged...
Stirring times, indeed ! Danny.