I recall that Guy Gibson VC started off by flying Hampdens and he once wrote of an incident in which he and his crew chased a German Dornier which was returning from a bombing mission over England. They pulled alongside the Dornier and raked it with fire from their dorsal and ventral gun positions ,bringing it down.

I read somewhere that Gibson shot down a second German bomber in a similar fashion on a separate occasion. Does anyone have further details?

Colin