Flying Officer Bill Draper of 8 Humewood Drive, Toronto, Canada

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Flying Officer Bill Draper of 8 Humewood Drive, Toronto, Canada

Flying Officer Bill Draper of 8 Humewood Drive, Toronto, Canada, tells an interesting listener how he shot down a German Luftwaffe FW 190 in a head on attack. Both aircraft dived, but his Spitfire dived a little sharper than the German, whose propeller struck the Spitfires rudder, shedding a blade. It then spun to the ground. This was his second score of the afternoon, for earlier in the same sortie he shot down another FW.190 with his cannon.
Picture taken at a forward airfield in North Africa, March 1943

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