A P-38 and I somehow miraculously ended up point blank range to each other. Luckily he was in front of my guns instead of vice versa. I don't think either one of us knew this would happen, and scared the crapp out of me (I thought he missed me and I dodged a bullet!)
<S> AAJaegerX, made a pretty "close encounter" screenshot set.
P.S. I couldn't tell at the time if he was in a death spiral or an evasive. I followed him down so as not to lose the target. Looking at film he had lost half his flaps and the other half was full down so I suspect he was done for. Hindsight is 20/20. I also had used the last of my 20mm to do that damage, and was trying to finish with 2x 7mm.