"I did a long straight firing pass at a Dornier right into point blank range and hit him well. It streamed smoke and rolled right out of the formation. I rolled away from it straight into a spiral dive, pulled out about 5000 feet lower down, looked around, cleared my tail, there was nobody there. I could see the rest of this formation still up above. I thought, "I'll climb back up and see if I can pick up a straggler", but before I did that a target presented itself because right down across my front came a single Me 109. 

By this time we were just over the Isle of Purbeck in the area of Warmwell airfield. I remember seeing it right, down on my right. I rolled in after this Messerschmitt half thinking for a moment that it might be a Spitfire because it was so unusual to see a single Messerschmitt by itself. Whether he'd been hit or not I don't know. He wasn't showing any smoke, he was travelling fairly fast just diving towards the sea as if he was getting the hell out of it and going home, probably just what he was doing . I got onto his tail, fired a long burst. He slowed up and then rolled very violently up to the right. As he came out of his roll I was back on his tail close in for another burst, when I could see that his undercarriage was coming down. He was also streaming grey smoke, might have been coolant. 

We were down to about 1200 feet then over the fields of Dorset, the Purbeck hills. He started to side slip fairly violently. He did another roll this time with his wheels down and then did a diving dirt turn down towards the ground. I thought either he's going to go in or he's actually aiming for a forced landing. I held off and he went round a field, lost speed, side slipped quite sharply and he was obviously a very capable pilot. Eventually he went in to land on this field rather hard, buckled the undercarriage, slipped on his belly across the field and ended up at the far end in a hedge.

I dived round after him. I saw him lift his canopy, sideways opening cockpit of the 109, jump out onto the wing and then lie flat on the ground. I wondered whether he thought his aeroplane was going to blow up. I realised that he must have thought I was going to strafe him on the ground, which wasn't a thing that would have occurred to me to do, but anyway I flew round again. This time he was on his feet and back up on his wing root diving into the cockpit. Whether he was putting his maps or something in I don't know, but it was then smoking. Soon after that it caught fire properly. Subsequently the army unit who took charge of him, he spoke to them and he said he was very appreciative of the pilot who shot him down not strafing him on the ground and he asked these army chaps to give me his luger pistol, which they duly did."