[Larry]

Dear Andy,

I don't have very much but here goes:

My Dad was 14 at the time and lived in Trowbridge, Wilts and was a keen aircraft spotter, who had visited RAF Stations as far as Hullavington to watch aircraft and with his friends had visited at least one crash site in the early was years; that of a Battle that had belly landed around the time of the phoney war.

Presumably Tuesday 17th Sept would have been a school day unless summer holidays were longer to get the harvest in! However for some reason my Dad was outside at the time when he was alerted to the sound of aircraft and looking up saw a Spitfire chasing a lone Ju88.

He remembers that the Spitfire was firing at the Ju88 as he said that when the Spitfires fired its guns, the noise it made surprised him in the sense that it was a single 'burrrr' noise and not a 'rata tat tat' that he had expected (being an avid reader of WW1 books about the Western Front).

Luckily he is still with us, so I will ask him tomorrow what else he can add.