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Details from LUFTWAFFE CRASH ARCHIVE by Nigel Parker. so I mention the village is not so far from the Leicestershire border ain case some mistake was make in records. Many Thanks!

Lots of Queen Marys (long low-loaders) with bits and pieces aircraft on them ( I once saw a very flash, brand new Spitfire of a very late mark, on one.

Its all a bit of a mystery.

The plane was shot down and he remembers the polish hurricane pilot visiting later to apologise for frightening the locals !
called Annacey, which I have since found out is now apartments, but as young children we were taken for walks from there which means the crash was within relative walking distance of there . The Protection of Military remains Act clearly states that: A person contravenes this subsection in relation to any remains -. to school over the next day or so. WebCrash site: Arunachal Pradesh, state in northeast India. WebA NEW digital map has painstakingly recorded all the bombs that fell on Britain during World War II. This was the first example of a Junkers 88 to fall on Hertfordshire soil during World War Two. I also note that there is a Waterloo Farm near these locations (Witherenden Hill, TN19 7JN not sure if its the same farm?). I also used to watch Bury mostly away games. Locals are said to remember the captured aircrew in the village and subsequent removal of the aircraft. Time and place of crash is given Kings Somborne 14:15 hrs. The smell of rotting human flesh drove us away pretty quickly. Likewise, I used to bicycle to friends in Hammerwood along a long disused driveway to Hammerwood Park (large mansion) and believe I probably rode over the runway of an advanced landing airstrip, with out any knowledge until 45 years later!! Having read what I could from the books I have I am pretty sure I know the trajectory as the 110 had to pull up over the church before flying over the high street in front of my house (which incidentally was the Home Guard HQ/Office during the war) and the pub before hitting the ground. I found Petersens Cannock Chase record but dont know anything about the rest of his crew. Do please let me know how you get on, be good to add a photo here or a link to your site if you add it there for anyone else searching for it. I have looked at some records of Luftwaffe crashes but only for the period January 1941 December 1942. Thanks again Ian Im fascinated by all this stuff, and Im right in the centre of where it all happened. We came to Australia in 1955. On my train to London I once counted about 20 pillboxes dotting the countryside and that started it off. My problem is that I do not remember which year that was.

WebAircraft Crash Sites. A Heinkel He-111 was seen over Alfriston on 10 April 1941. I dont know about Parkers Book so if you do have anything of interest Id still be keen to see it. Do17Z-2 Wn3230 U5+ET is described as having been shot down at Nine Acre wood, Kilndown at 15.15 on the 15th.

We have some woods nearby and have found British .50 cal bullets in the woods and scraps of aluminium and have always wondered if they had anything to do with the Heinkel. I only have volume 2 and I can find no one of that name, including phonetic variations.

Stay in touch.

Other nearby places this incident could be recorded against are (from Google maps): Criccieth; Porthmadog; Portmeirion; Morfa Bychan; Harlech and Afon Glaslyn.

What a fascinating site! Same perhaps goes for bodies washed ashore; and who would know when they died?. He was brought to the farmhouse at Waterloo Farm and my grandmother gave him a cup of tea and a slice of cake while waiting for the police to collect him. Ok thanks Alan, will take a look and get back to you. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Harrow Train Crash Inquiry: James Kent. I found notes gun crew in Seaford say they hit a bomber, they also mention airmans body found on Cradle Hill. At approximately 19:30 hours on the 14th August 1940 the German Luftwaffe Heinkel HE111P-2 was dropping its payload of bombs on the RAF training school at RAF Sealand. There is a photo of Gefr Becker and the photo you mention? Cannock Chase was selected as the German Military Cemetary as the terrain most features German splinter countryside (also why their aircraft are camouflaged in such a way as oppose the RAFs more wavy British lines. Thats so kind of you its a story that has always fascinated me!

My mum (born 1928) lived and worked in Luton all her life and told me a few times about a German plane (sounds like a fighter bomber, light bomber or bomber) crash landing on wet field in the north of Luton, possibly around where Icknield school is now. Wish I had had a camera in those days. My other purchase is crashed parts of a Messershmitt BF109E5/JG26, flown by Uffz Wemhoner and shot down over Folkestone,Kent, the plane crashed at Tappington Hall farm, Denton, Kent, does anyone have any information on this ? If you know about a wartime American crash site, its location, type of aircraft, or personnel involved I have read that the battery shot the tail of a Dornier, which crashed not far away in Walderslade.

Bill C. Do you have any information about a possible crash at Easthampstead near Bracknell, Berkshire (about ten miles east of Reading)? One of the photos is of a Spitfire on the ground at Kenley and another is of the bombers departing, again parallel to the Seven Sisters. In the Aug 1976 there was an excavation of the site (by the authors) that identified the aeroplane number #10244 allowing the crew to be identified as Major Wilhelm Schmitter and Uffz. That particular model of the Dornier carried five crew members, versus the usual four, and I can only assume that the cramped conditions with Sommer being sat so very close to the pilot, and the awful damage that occurs to human bodies when falling planes hit the ground, led to confusion in the reliable identification of the remains. Let me know how you get on? The bomber had been hit by AA fire and crash-landed on Gatwick racecourse on 30 September. The bomber had departed Orleans intending to bomb Birmingham. It looks as if you have found the one I saw as a boy, two days after the event. I was told exactly where it crashed but that was over 25yrs ago & I was in a pub at the time lol. However, searching instead for Gefr. Does anyone have any clues? The Sussex Constabulary reports often reproduced in the Crash Archives that Ian has can narrow the area down and might be the best information. Thanks Simon, I had a look at your site, stared at the word KEEPITURYENS for a few seconds before realising it was Excalibur! I knew Helmuts daughter and corresponded with her. 1944 would fit with what I remember being told; apparently the airman seemed just glad to be alive and out of the war. This engine part we gave to a museum on Dunkeswell airfield where American Liberators were based.We often looked for souvenirs there and on one occasion took away two stainless steel machine gun belts before we were politely told by an American guard that we should not be there! Best wishes The aeroplane was described as an Me109, but that might be just an embellishment. I can provide you with many details of Pilot HELMUT GALL! Many thanks for that info, Simon.

Here is a link to more detail of the action and the mens resting place. A friend and myself found a possible 50kg bomb (without tailfin) which was rolled into a silt pond by my friends father when we told him what we had found. We were also under the flight path of Doodle Bug alley. Since I own all of these documents to Schmitter it made me a bit more motivated, as you might imagine, to find all I could about his career. I shall take a look Adam, might be a week or so before am able to though, not at home at present. I do not know the soldiers in your picture, sorry. Private Kelly was my grandfather and it is difficult to find any further information here in Australia. Many Thanks Ian, Hi Ian I only have the info I have because I was a member of a rough shoot club on Foyle Farm and one day we found 2 men excavating the crash site that we didnt even know was there.

Aircraft 100% write-off. No problem Stuart. I went there on my bicycle with a friend a couple of days afterwards. I have found another portrait online, slightly better quality. The other belonged to Fw Richter who could not find anyone to surrender to, having caught up in a tree as he landed.



MANSTON, KENT. One was looking for his brother Hans who was later found dead. (Hurricanes possibly from MIddle Wallop?). This is my only reasoning for why this part might be in this location. I will dig them out and see if mention of the 410 was made. The Nachtjagd diary books list pilots and what happened to them. Hi.

The aircraft in question is a WWII Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress that crashed on Sandwich Bay in Kent in 1943.

I'm hoping to update PlaneCrashMap.com with some of the He claims (in that year) a German Luftwaffe airman had baled out of his crashing Heinkel nearby. Simon, that Me-410 you mentioned: Dave Smith, another schoolchum of mine in those days (circa 1952), and a fellow aviation enthusiast, lived in Langney, which is part of Eastbourne and on the eastern edge of the town. WebA researcher, @clapos (his internet forum and twitter alias, as he has asked www.ww2wrecks.com not to reveal his real name), has done a thorough research and

I noticed a recent comment and replies on pprune, take it that is you? It must have belly-anded somewhere south of Winchester and was probably a prototype that flew from Supermarines at Eastleigh airport near Southampton. Bear with me, it might require me trawling through 11 volumes of books to find it! If you can get hold of the civil defence diary they might be able to shed some light on it. 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Someone had painted the crosses with the names of four German airmen, with rank, serial numbers, etc. The day before WW2 started, Saturday Sept 2nd, 1939, I was evacuated to Milton Street, Maidstone in Kent. Will take another look and get back to you over the weekend. You have to wonder how many wrecks will just never be discovered, particularly those that lie under water. 60024/4 BO Oberlt Max-Dankwart BIRKENSTOCK 16.12.15 Neustettin, Stettin

Simon, the article I read about the widow of that German pilot was in the Eastbourne Herald newspaper, I think. I know there was an attack on Easthampstead Park in 1941 (which was being used by a school evacuated from London), but I dont know if this was the same incident.

The rest of the crew were Lt R Oepen, Uff. Most farmers are very helpful, I find knocking on doors particularly useful, people often have photos or the odd chunk of debris and are more than willing to talk about it, even if they dont recall it themselves, the story is often passed down. Key Publishing Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales with Company Number 2713662. I have visited here as many Battle of Britain German airmen are buried there alongside hundreds of others. Its well worth a trip.

Our Register for that long ago is now lodged at The Keep (the County archive). Thanks very much. Then died. The only information I have on the crash is from After the Battle The Blitz Vol 3 giving Hammer Wood as the crash site and a photograph of 2 bobbies with the tailplane wreckage but its impossible to tell where the crash site is from the image.

Cheers Who knows? WebKent's towns were bombed throughout the war and casualties on the ground were often heavy in spite of the fact that thousands of people went underground to avoid the raids.

The next day, the RAF and the local civil authorities came to his school and asked the kids to bring back what they had collected. GB445558329. My father wrote an account of the Dornier crash in Laindon which he witnessed as a small boy. I know there is a grave for a German in the local churchyard and assume he was one of the crew. Sgt Leroy L. Logan, engineer / upper turret gunner, killed P-47D Thunderbolt 42-22758 crash site on Pendle Hill. Thanks. The bomber finally levelled off at around twenty feet above the ground, followed relentlessly by Peter Ayerst in his Spitfire.

I am trying to find any information on a german plane that crashed on Combe Hill, Berkshire. Sounds like you have got the right Ju 88. Felix Hainzinger.