BIGGLES SWEEPS THE DESERT

by Captain W. E. Johns

XII. THE ENEMY STRIKES AGAIN (Pages 137 - 148)

Biggles expects von Zoyton to attack just before sundown and when the six German Messerschmitts 109 come, and the feared Messerschmitt 110 bomber, Biggles, Bertie and Tex go up to meet them in the three Spitfires. Biggles shots the bomber down before it can bomb his Oasis at Salima. Angus arrives back in the Defiant in time to help out and only two Messerschmitts get away. Tex has been shot down but baled out and is alright. There is one casualty, a boy from Wadi Halfa who volunteered to be a gunner for Angus in the Defiant is fatally wounded and dies at Biggles feet. Biggles gives orders for him to be buried together with enemy casualties from the bomber shot down nearby.