"Once (I think it was 31st aug. 1940), I was in a fight with four Hurricanes over Dover. I was back over the channel when I saw another Hurricane coming from Calais, trailing white smoke, obviously in a bad way. I flew up alongside him and escorted him all the way to England and waved goodbye. A few weeks later the same thing happened to me. That would never have happened in Russia - never". (Erich Rudorffer - 109 pilot)