Pilot Shot Down 7 Enemy Planes After His Own Engine Was on Fire WW2 Tactics

Over the English Channel in 1940, RAF Pilot James Nicolson's Hurricane caught fire during a Luftwaffe ambush. Flames filled the cockpit. His hands were burning on the controls. Every instinct screamed eject. Instead, Nicolson spotted a Messerschmitt in his gunsight and held the trigger down — burning alive — until it exploded. Then another. Then a third. He finally bailed out with third-degree burns covering both hands and his face. He was awarded the Victoria Cross — the only Fighter Command pilot in the entire war to receive one.James Nicolson Victoria Cross, RAF pilot on fire kept fighting, Battle of Britain hero, Hurricane fighter WWII, burning cockpit survival, Luftwaffe ambush 1940, Fighter Command VC, WWII pilot extreme bravery, one pilot seven kills, English Channel dogfight 1940.

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