The four-engined aircraft tried to get home and away at high speed, whilst slightly losing height. I slowly got closer, until I could make it out with my bare eyes. I gradually lost some height and positioned myself 100 to 150 metres beneath my target. It now hung over us, as large as a barn door. I put my sights on the fuselage and with the Schrage Musik I fired through the whole length of it. Our target dived down steeply and crashed onto the ground in the area of the mouth of the River Scheldt. We saw how it exploded on impact, with a huge detonation and a sheet of flames.”
This account by Luftwaffe pilot Oberleutnant Gottfried Hanneck, which appears in by Martin Bowman (Pen & Sword, 2009), details an event that happened in the skies above the hamlet of Elkerzee on the island
