A freind emailed this to me:
>
>
> A BBC TV journalist is interviewing a elderly former Polish fighter
> pilot.
>
> Interviewer: So Mr Stanczewski, I understand that in 1943 you shot down
> five German aircraft in a single engagement. Could you tell us what
> happened?
>
> Polish Fighter Pilot: Well we were flying at 20,000 feet when we spotted
> five Fokkers flying along below us. So we dived down and I aimed at one
> of the Fokkers and fired a burst from my machine guns right into him and
> he exploded. Then I saw that one of the Fokkers was on my tail, so I
> pulled round in a loop and got behind him, and fired and he went down on
> fire. I looked around and saw two Fokkers attacking my squadron leader,
> so slipped in behind them, and fired, and that was another Fokker going
> down in flames. The other Fokker tried to get away from me, but I got
> right up behind him, and blasted him with my machine guns and turned
> over and exploded. There was only one of the Fokkers left now, and he
> was trying to get away, but I flew up behind him, shot - bang, bang,
> bang - and he blew up too!
>
> Interviewer: I should point out for the benefit of the viewers at home,
> that the Fokker was a type of German aircraft used in the war.
>
> Polish Fighter Pilot: No, no, no - these fokkers were Messerschmitts!
>
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