Beaufighter versus Messerschmitt - Pilot Officer Sherwood

Pilot Officer Sherwood describes an encounter between Beaufighters and Messerschmitts; while evading and drawing the Germans further from their bases one Messerschmitt misjudged a dive and crashed into the sea.

Pilot Officer Sherwood comments on an unusual encounter in which a Messerschmitt crashed into the sea due to target fixation. He describes weather conditions over the North Sea, how three Messerschmitts attacked and how he spent twenty minutes evading, while drawing them west. He comments on his observer’s good performance, the end of the engagement due to the Germans’ lack of fuel and the Messerschmitt that crashed into the sea.