Snip! 3 Snip! Snip! Most days flying to school we had to fight off attacks from Billy Kemp on his pony, Hiccup. Sometimes he was a Messerschmitt 109, sometimes a Spitfire that the Nazis had forced down and captured, it just depended. He’d come hurtling down out of the clouds, or out of the sun. “Ka! Ka! Ka!” his machine guns would go, and we’d be firing back from all four turrets. Once we’d put in the radar dome, Billy soon worked out that a Lancaster’s belly was its weak spot, so our tail gunner had most of the fun because he had to come up from behind.Sometimes the Nazi air ace shot us down, sometimes we limped home on three engines, sometimes we bailed out and paddled home in our rubber dinghy. Sometimes we blew Billy Kemp and Hiccup out of the sky: Boom! The tail gunner used to screech, “Gotcha!” as Billy went down in smoke. She tried to claim all the credit.So it was no wonder we were tired by the time we got home.
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