Luftwaffe ace Helmut Wick shot down over Poole Bay
Gary
I learnt two things making this image: a deadly encounter between German and British fighter aircraft in late 1940; and the unusual cockpit canopy jettison mechanism on the Messerschmitt Bf 109.
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