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Dave Dawson with the Commandos

Chapter 41: A Page from
By Robert Sidney Bowen
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The narrative follows Dave Dawson, a young pilot who receives sudden orders and takes part in a string of wartime missions, including night attacks, ferrying bombers, and intense aerial combat. Episodes portray tense dogfights with enemy fighters, a dramatic rescue of his comrade Freddy Farmer, rapid redeployments to England and forward sectors, and coordinated operations with commando forces. The action-driven chapters emphasize high-risk flying, split-second decision making under fire, tight teamwork, and the mounting psychological strain of repeated combat.

[1] Dave Dawson, Flight Lieutenant.

[2] Dave Dawson With The R.A.F.

A Page from

DAVE DAWSON ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT

The moving dot silhouetted against the bleak, cheerless-looking sky grew bigger and bigger. Presently it ceased to be just a moving dot. It took on the definite shape and outline of a German Messerschmitt One-Ten. Dave watched it a moment longer, and then when the Nazi craft suddenly veered off to the west, and went streaking upward toward a brooding bank of clouds, he took a quick glance at Freddy Farmer flying just off his right wing, and started to snap out a short burst from his guns.

There was no need, however, to attract the English youth's attention. Freddy had already spotted the Nazi plane. In fact, he was pulling his own ship around and up in that direction. Dave grinned, tight-lipped, and hauled his own plane around in Freddy's wake.

"Leave it to you, Eagle Eyes, to spot things before I do," he murmured with a chuckle. "Okay, pal. That's our baby. This is our dish. He thinks he's learned things, and is hurrying home to tell Uncle Goering about it. Well, not today, hey, Freddy?"