Took off from Base at St. Trond at 2215 for an airfield attack on Kelz airfield. Flight of 4 Spit IXs bombed up 500 lb midline,with top escort of secondary flight of 4 Spit IX. We headed east and climbed to around 12,000 ft over the front line near Aachen. Some medium level flak but nothing serious. A flight of 4 bogeys co-alt with us moving from east to west was spotted off the port beam. Over the target I flew with the flight lead who hesitated whilst gathering his bearings. After a couple of minutes we proceeded to dive onto the airfield and I focussed on a group of parked aircraft in the northeastern corner. My dive was steady and true and I planted all ordnance squarely in the middle of the parked enemy a/c, releasing well below 2000 ft. I followed Red One away from the airfield and then we circuited around in order to approach again for ground strafing of the same area. This was accomplished without any interference and very litte airfield flak was present. I concentrated my strafing fire on a single enemy a/c and then we climbed away together. Red One circled until he got his bearings back to base and then we climbed away buster. Climbed to above angels 10 and continued back across the front line around Aachen. From there we started to let down towards base. As I flew over Tongeren I was aware of tracer rounds on my port side, I broke hard to port and saw 2 enemy a/c probably 109s on my tail. With hard left rudder and hard over to port I was able to get onto the six of one of these and after a couple of half second bursts into the fuselage and cockpit area the now confirmed 109 was seen to start smoking from the engine and to dive steeply towards the ground. Flt Lt Merfort confirmed that he saw the enemy a/c hit the ground and explode. The second enemy 109 lost interest and escaped and we were able to recover back to base. From the initial attack my a/c suffered damage to the starboard wing and damage to the empanage, rudder control was regained with starboard rudder trim applied. My engine was also producing smoke by this stage. I swiftly affected a landing on the active without any issue. One Bf-109 claimed as destroyed and my a/c declared as Class A damaged which can be repaired here at St. Trond. F/Lt 'Madov' Emblin |
