In the enemy formation, Neil said he focused on a Dornier Do 17 bomber and fired at it, causing the crew to abandon the damaged aircraft. 15, 1940, when Adolf Hitler ordered a fierce bombing campaign ahead of an expected invasion.Īs two major German bombing raids were launched on London, Neil and others were dispatched up to 20,000 feet in the sky to stop them. One day that remains vivid in his mind was Sept. He was later credited with shooting down 14 enemy aircraft in the war - most of them during the battle that ended Oct. Neil survived tense dogfights in the four-month battle that left more than 40,000 people dead. All we were able to do is duck and weave to preserve our lives.” “We were immersed with day-to-day fighting. 249 RAF Squadron, who were as young as he was. “We didn’t think strategically or anything like that,” Neil said of his fellow pilots in the No. Seventy five years ago, a 20-year-old Neil flew a Hawker Hurricane for the Royal Air Force, shielding his homeland against thousands of German bombers in the Battle of Britain - the first ever battle decisively fought in the air.
“It’s so much beyond my comprehension,” Tom "Ginger" Neil, Britain’s highest-scoring living ace, said of the aircraft’s fifth generation design, which also has stealth features. (AFNS) - The World War II flying ace looked wide-eyed at the instrument panel of an F-35 Lightning II simulator, as a pilot hovered the virtual fighter jet above a warship and safely landed it.
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