PILOT'S MIRACULOUS ESCAPE IN BATTLE OF BRITAIN - Squadron Leader Victor Howard Ekins, DFC., 29 year old auctioneer and land agent from , Hunts, had a special reason for remembering the Battle of Britain. Not only did he fight in some of the fiercest engagements, but one day in September 1940 he had one of the most remarkable escapes on record, when a bullet went right through him. Ekins was a sergeant pilot in a Hurricane squadron and on that day his squadron shot down three Dornier 215s. As the bombers went down, the Hurricanes were attacked by Messerschmitts. A machine gun b
PILOT'S MIRACULOUS ESCAPE IN BATTLE OF BRITAIN - Squadron Leader Victor Howard Ekins, DFC., 29 year old auctioneer and land agent from , Hunts, had a special reason for remembering the Battle of Britain. Not only did he fight in some of the fiercest engagements, but one day in September 1940 he had one of the most remarkable escapes on record, when a bullet went right through him. Ekins was a sergeant pilot in a Hurricane squadron and on that day his squadron shot down three Dornier 215s. As the bombers went down, the Hurricanes were attacked by Messerschmitts. A machine gun bullet hit Ekins in the back went clean through and out of his stomach and then wrecked the controls in the cockpit. By a curious chance after baling out, Ekins landed in the encampment of a Canadian ambulance unit. Today Squadron Leader Ekins commands a Spitfire squadron - the first squadron ever to be equipped with Spitfires. Ekins joined the a year before the war and was commissioned in 1941. He is married to a Section Officer in the Picture (issued 1943) shows - Squadron Leader Ekins, DFC. Photographic negative , Royal Air Force
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