Take off went ok — just over the Dutch-German border we were suprised by an ME110 — I think actually he was after someone ahead of us — he flashed by us with only a short burst that missed. He came up again and shot us full of holes — I was throwing Bertie all over the sky trying to get away. I went into a corkscrew that put him above us at our 6. The mid upper and tail guns both hit him and he blew up.
We found the TI's nicely — we got picked up the lights and flak hits knocked us about and an ME109 shot past the nose without hitting us — Jeeves was hit by a spent piece of shrapnel and the oxy to the nose went out. Jeeves dropped on target and I dove down and away from the city. We came home at 1000 ft. Picked up a few more holes from flak over Holland. Landed OK — without brakes.