I have heard people say that ‘there was no Luftwaffe’ or ‘the Allies controlled the air’ but in my case I clearly saw, through the embrasure, a twin-engined night fighter pursuing an Allied bomber out over the sea, and shooting it up with tracer. Both aircraft went off into the clouds, firing at each other. After that, there were long pathways of aircraft going in both directions overhead, far more intense even than the regular raiding formations.

