Eagle Days: Life and Death for the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by John Vasco

It concerned the combat on 16th August 1940, when Nicholson of 249 Squadron was shot down badly burned. His citation for the Victoria Cross mentioned his shooting down of a Bf 110 … Peter and I spent several weeks (I would say running into months) discussing this, and working on a form of words (amended many times) before we agreed on the final text that would not leave us open to litigation from relatives.

I know the problem and have used something on the lines of, “… but the author has been unable to find any German record of a corresponding loss”.