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Re: Malta Aircraft Defence
Here the relevant passage, page 126 of "A-Train", by Lt.-Col. DRYDEN:
"As it turned out none of us scored a victory on that mission. Ashley damaged one of the enemy planes but wasn't able to follow the smoking plane to see if it crashed, and we did not have gun cameras at that stage of the war, so he could not confirm a victory. After the break right into the attacking fighters I saw a formation of medium bombers several thousand feet above us and I climbed to engage them. No luck as my P-40 couldn't climb fast enough to catch up them and we were not equipped with oxygen for flights above 12,000 feet. Somewhere around 16,000 feet I passed out briefly. I came to a few seconds later with my plane in shallow dive."
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