Having just shot down a French Hawk fighter on a sweep north of Paris, Luftwaffe ace pilot Adolf Galland and his wingman, Captain Ankum-Frank, suddenly encountered two flights of Morane-Saulnier fighters. In the furious action that followed, Galland scored two kills, coming so close to an exploding enemy fighter that he bent his propeller and lost his radio aerial to the force of the blast. After gaining the kills (Galland's twelfth and unofficial thirteenth since he did not observe the second crash due to harassment from enemy fighters) the outnumbered German pair used the superior speed of their aircraft to disengage safely. Galland later wrote that the French pilots flew well, but their aircraft were inferior to his Messerschmitt 109.
