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My father Group captain D.R Shore,now deceased,a professional RAF pilot told me the story of how he was shot down twice during WW2. once during a flight to Malta in a plane he called an A plane an Avro something, he didn't like flying it much,but they were hit and the plane disabled so he told the crew to bail out and he would follow, they jumped but his navigator was too scared and wouldn't, so my father had to risk crash landing on Malta which was covered in small fields surrounded by stone walls there was not enough room to land so he had to land and crash into a wall to slow the plane down, he sustained a nasty head injury but he saved the navigator.
The second time he was shot down he was flying a Beaufighter for coastal command and was attacking a U boat in the Atlantic and was shot through the wrist by a German plane that came from above them, he had to ditch the plane in the sea one handed, all the crew got out before the plane sank. he said they had to wait a long time before being rescued he thinks because a nearby british ship thought they were German and weren't too quick to respond.He said it was very cold hanging about.

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