Wing Leader by Johnnie Johnson

My only hope of a getaway lay in a small gap between two hangers. I pointed the Spitfire at this gap, hurtled through it and caught a glimpse of the multiple barrels of a light flak gun swinging on to me from one of the parapets. Beyond lay a long, straight road with tall poplars on either side, and I belted the Spitfire down the road with the trees forming some sort of screen. Tracer was still bursting over the cockpit, but with luck I should soon be out of range and I held down the Spitfire so that she was only a few feet above the road.

Johnnie Johnson (1915 2001) RAF fighter ace