Flying ace: Captain Mike Stephens with his spitfire plane during World War Two A collection of medals awarded to a World War Two flying ace shot down a German bomber while he was one fire have sold for almost £100,000. Group Captain Mike Stephens was awarded an immediate Distinguished Service Order for his aerial heroics carried out when his plane was badly damaged and set on fire. Injured in both feet and with much of his engine and half his cockpit shot away, Grp Cpt Stephens prepared to leap from the flying wreckage. But when the Luftwaffe pilot who had attacked him flew ahead, he calmly climbed back into his Hurricane fighter-bomber and shot the enemy Messerschmitt down.
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Group Captain Mike Stephen climbed back into his Hurricane fighter-bomber to shoot down a German Messerschmitt with moments to spare
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Parachuted away and beat out the flames on his burning uniform as he drifted to the ground... then hobbled through Libyan desert
He beat the flames out as he parachuted to the ground before landing just 300 yards from the @placeholder front line.