I don't remember to save many of my sorties to film, but I do remember one recent sortie that I wish I had filmed.
I had just upped a P51 from a field and was on autoclimb out towards the north east. As I looked around I became aware of a pack of countrymen flying directly above the base and in my direction, and I heard some fuzz over the radio about some enemy so I looked closer.
There, deep into the weeds directly behind me there was a P47 running like a bat out of hell. So I kept my eyes on him as he started to go under me, tilted my plane slightly over to the right to keep my eyes on him and there he was zooming straight up to get me. The guys following him was too far back to get a shot at him, and I was really slow as I was still climbing.
So I kept my eyes on the 47 as he started to get almost in guns range for me, then I started a righthand turn, climbed as hard as I could, kicked the rudder whipping my tail straight up and was suddenly in a perfect position to shoot the P47 as he zoomed through my gunsight directly below me at very close range. So offcourse I pulled the trigger, and boom the P47 went..
Really wish I had saved that film, because that was just perfect in all ways possible. I remember someone complaining about the kill they had been after for so long so I almost feel a little bad for that. But on the other hand, not one of them gave me a check6 either so I was pretty much on my own, so I did what I had to do to stay alive. And I took the shot when it was served to me on a silverplate like that..