Flight Lieutenant R.D.G.Wight Letter to his Mother during the Dunkirk operation Well another day is gone, and with it a lot of grand blokes. Got another brace of 109's today but the whole Luftwaffe seems to leap on us – we are hopelessly outnumbered. I was caught napping by a 109 in the middle of a dogfight and got a couple of holes in the aircraft, one of them filled the office with smoke, but the Jerry overshot and he's dead. If anyone says anything to you in future about the inefficiency of the RAF – I believe the BEF troops were booing the RAF in Dover the other day – tell them from me we only wish we could do more. But without aircraft we can do no more than we have done – that is, our best, and that's fifty times better than the German best, though they are fighting under the most advantageous conditions. I know of no RAF pilot who has refused combat yet – and that means combat with odds of more than fifty to one. Three of us the other day had been having a fight and were practically out of ammunition and juice when we saw more than eighty 109's with twelve JU 87's. All the same, we gave them combat, so much so that they left us alone in the end – on their side of the Channel too. This is just the work that we all do. One of my sergeants shot down three fighters and a bomber before they got him – and then he got back in a paddle steamer. (Sgt Butterfield DFM).So don't worry. We are going to win this war even if we have only one aeroplane to go into combat…The spirit of the average pilot has to be seen to be believed. Flight Lieutenant Wight was killed in action leading three Hurricanes against sixty one Messerschmitt 110's at the height of the Battle of Britain two months later.