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442 Squadron (Un dieu, une reine, un coeur) Landing Ground B.88, Heesch, Netherlands. Squadron Leader Milton Eardley Jowsey DFC (RCAF) was flying a ground attack role from Eindhoven, Netherlands in Spitfire LF Mk IX PT 725 Y2-E and was strafing a German staff car when his engine was struck by his own bullets that had ricocheted from the target . The Spitfire crashed near the Dutch/German border. Squadron Leader Jowsey managed to bale from his stricken aircraft and avoided capture as an Evader, aided and sheltered by locals and Dutch Resistance Fighters until liberated by advancing British Troops 1945-04-01 and returned safe to the UK 1945-04-05
Squadron Leader Jowsey also flew with 234 Squadron in the Western Desert in Africa and with 92 Squadron in SicilyRAF Evaders, The Comprehensive Story of Thousands of Escapers and Their Escape Lines, Western Europe, 1940-1945 by Oliver Clutton-Brock, page 377
Invasion Without Tears, The Story of Canada's Top-Scoring Spitfire Wing in Europe During the Second World War by Monty Berger and Brian Jeffrey Street, pages 121-123, 144-145, 179-180, 190
Aces High, A Tribute to the Most Notable Fighter Pilots of the British and Commonwealth Forces of WWII by Christopher Shores and Clive Williams, page 365
Royal Air Force Serial and Image Database
Spitfire pilots and aircraft database - Flying Officer Milton Jowsey RCAF