"That was a bomb. The sky is absolutely patterned with bursts of antiaircraft fire and the sea is covered with smoke. Parachuters? No, I think they're sea gulls. Oh, we've just hit a Messerschmitt! Oh, that was beautiful! He's coming right down. You hear those crowds?"
Rattling along in this fashion last week, BBC's Newscaster Charles ("Filthy") Gardner brought to British listeners radio's first eyewitness blow-by-blow account of a full-dress air battle. Nervous, wiry, a pilot himself, Gardner patrolled the English Coast with a recording van for a solid week before he happened upon...
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