The Flying Sawn-Off Shotgun That Terrified Hitler



The Battle of Britain raged on in September 1940. The sky erupts in chaos. Spitfires and Messerschmitts twist and turn in a struggle to achieve victory. Amidst these tense dogfights, one aircraft moves with uncanny precision.

Eric “Sawn-Off Lockie” Lock spots an opening others miss. His Spitfire flips and dives, defying physics. A Me109 fills his gunsight. Lock’s Browning machine guns roar to life. The enemy spirals earthward, trailing smoke and flame.

There is no time to celebrate. Twenty-seven minutes of intense combat follow. Lock becomes a menacing specter in the sky. Two He111 bombers fall victim to his accurate aim, their crews oblivious to the danger.

Another Me109 crosses his path and lands a burst on Lockie’s aircraft, injuring his leg: a fatal mistake. The British aviator, seeking revenge, outmaneuvers the enemy and shoots it down.

Four trophies in under an hour.

Before Lock heads home, his radio crackles: (QUOTE) “Luftwaffe bomber formation incoming! All available pilots scramble!”

Lock’s ammunition is low, and his fuel is nearly spent. But the call of duty fills his heart. His thumb hovers over the radio button. He will not miss an opportunity to become an ace in a matter of hours.

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45 thoughts on “The Flying Sawn-Off Shotgun That Terrified Hitler”

  1. Why don't the producers of this awful diatribe of unfactual rubbish try to get their research correct…Eric Lock, his name is pronounced LOCK not LOKEE he and his colleagues unlike the producers of this awful narration gave 100% with many paying for their bravery with their lives, try to at least represent them by pronouncing their names correctly instead of being insuch a hurry to earn money from your poor production

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  2. 15.50 liberated !!???? we were never occupied …. and i was going to say never will be but i would be wrong …next couple of decades we will all be fucking muslim ! these brave people who fought against impossable odds and never gave up …they will be spinning in thier graves if they could see how this country is now…….

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  3. 14:14 – 'Lockie spotted three He 113s' – You sure about that? The He-113 (Heinkel 113) was a prototype fighter created by the Heinkel company in the mid/late 30's, it never went into full production and it was never used in front line active service by the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain, or indeed any part of WWII.
    15:12 – 'The Germans were losing the fight, dispatching most of their fleet to the Eastern front' – There was no 'Eastern Front' in 1940. Operation Barbarossa (the nazi invasion of the Soviet Union didn't take place until 1941).
    15:43 – By the end of October, when the British finally managed to expel the Germans from their homeland' – again…wtf? No German troops ever set foot on Britain during WWII. I'm going to assume you meant that the RAF had cleared British skies from Luftwaffe presence…during the daytime at least.
    15:52 – 'With the United Kingdom liberated…' – Huh!? Liberated from 'who'?

    Get the basics right if you're going to do these videos.

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  4. You cannot be commissioned as a sergeant. Sergeant is a non-commissioned rank. He received his commission when promoted to pilot officer, the most junior commissioned rank in the Commonwealth air forces.

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  5. I was surprised re the comment that much of the Luftwaffe had been dispatched to the Easter Front. I didn’t know there was one until June 1941, 8 months after the conclusion of the Battle of Britain, when Germany invaded Russia.

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  6. At 12:00 the narrator notes that a "Ju-88 and Bf-110 fell to his guns and cannons". As far as I am aware, all the Spitfires in the Battle of Britain were armed with eight .303 caliber Browning machine guns. The only Mk 1b cannon armed Spitfires were with 19 Squadron, not 41.

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