U-453 by Ivan Berryman. (AP) BAT16 John Gibbon's Black Hat Brigade

John Gibbon's Black Hat Brigade

and after an inconclusive afternoon battle fell back towards Calais in the early evening

Messerschmitt Me110 night fighter attacking Lancaster bombers during a night raid

603 Sqn Spitfire XT-N X4271 in which he claimed Me109s on the 28th and 31st August 1940

U-453 by Ivan Berryman. (AP) BAT16 John Gibbon's Black Hat BrigadeDHM6733AP. U 453 by Ivan Berryman. The Type VIIC U Boat U 453 began service in June 1941 under the command of Knight's Cross winner Egon Reiner von Schlippenbach and claimed 10 vessels sunk including the Royal Navy minesweeper HMS Hebe. U 453 was sunk on 21st May 1944 by the destroyers HMS Tenacious, HMS Termagant and HMS Liddesdale off the coast of Italy. She is shown here on one of 17 patrols defending herself from air attack by a Catalina from RAF