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A story of the Battle of Britain written while the guns were firing. Suddenly the scream of a diving plane sounded above the din of the action. For a second I was at a loss to know where it came from. Then I saw it. Just north of the drome it was, falling perpendicularly, it's engines flat out. It dived out of control behind some trees and I saw the spout of earth and smoke it shot up. I felt slightly sick. I could imagine some poor devil fighting at the controls and then desperately trying to pull back a hood that had been jammed. It was as though I had been shown in a dream what was going to happen. And then came the crash...
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Attack Alarm, Hammond Innes
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- 1963
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- Title
- Attack Alarm
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Hammond Innes
- Publisher
- Fontana
- Released
- 1963
- Format
- Paperback
- Series
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- A story of the Battle of Britain written while the guns were firing. Suddenly the scream of a diving plane sounded above the din of the action. For a second I was at a loss to know where it came from. Then I saw it. Just north of the drome it was, falling perpendicularly, it's engines flat out. It dived out of control behind some trees and I saw the spout of earth and smoke it shot up. I felt slightly sick. I could imagine some poor devil fighting at the controls and then desperately trying to pull back a hood that had been jammed. It was as though I had been shown in a dream what was going to happen. And then came the crash...