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The 2 crew who died are both buried at the German Soldatenfriedhof, Cannock Chase. Hi my name is Clive Sweet. Your email address will not be published. See our extensive range of expert advice to help you care for and protect historic places. so Ill probably post a letter first before turning up and doffing my cap made me laugh. Will take a look at what I have in my books, get back to you if I find anything.

- 4th September 2008 at 06:00. My mother was 12 when the war ended and remembered her father cutting a cave in the hayrick as a shelter during the Battle of Britain he judged it the safest option, with all the shrapnel flying around. The other belonged to Fw Richter who could not find anyone to surrender to, having caught up in a tree as he landed. Any information would be much appreciated by a newly forming village historical group. Not a good copy, but this is a photo of the Ju88 site. Post author: Post published: March 25, 2023 Post category: woodside golf club membership fees Post comments: coastal carolina football camp 2022 coastal carolina football camp 2022 E. Zuch Its a long shot, but if either of the two soldiers on the right look like your grandfather, do let me know and I will email you another photo of them. She says she does not know where in the churchyard this was. So many stories from the long-running war. GB445558329. I have looked at the maps again Gerald. From hearing the whoosh to impact took just 5 seconds. By using Google maps we were able to identify his evacuation town as Bleanau Ffestiniog, where he stayed with the family of a Welsh international footballer (name unknown) who played for Liverpool. Lay buried with the pilot for thirty seven years I stood as a child each year for many of those years feeling sad that he was down there in his mangled wreak of his Emil ME 109, There is a sequel to this story.

Hi John, interesting memoir, where was this, where is Mount Field? Main thing I know of Croydon was the KLM air disaster. There are many details which do not chime with your family recollection Don Fw Richter was a veteran, having served since 1935 and in various campaigns before the Battle of Britain (France, Poland and he was with the Berlin Police Force before that) and was a flight sergeant, and not a nervous young man by the sounds of it. Anyone know details or more precise location? WebThe map has been launched to mark the 80th anniversary of the first raid. Went to see it straight away of course and it had done a fine belly landing; its engines were till ticking from the heat when I got to it. As such, he remains oficially missing. From photos I saw of the tangled, shattered wreckage, I can see why a less-informed witness would not be able to identify it correctly. The bomber was an He111H-6 serial 6N+HR which crashed at 2.55am. known to have been damaged on a raid to Glasgow. This one was shot down by a Beaufighter setting the countryside on fire with a spectacular light display when the high tension cables were hit.
The plane was shot down near Oakford in North Devon, my wifes grandfather arrested the pilot dads army style and took him up to Tiverton police station. [ Via] Where Instood within a few inches of the remains of that plane that nearly hit my mother 75 years earlier . As for the BBC record I would take good pinch of salt when rerading their accounts of Alfriston WW11 check their ages and dates in their accounts!!! The plane crashed into the mountainside, killing four out of the 10 men on board. Apparently the young man bailed out I would like to know more about this incident as I feel I have a good indication as to where the rest of this aeroplane is ! Bob Doe) of No.234 Squadron, during an armed reconnaissance over southern England. WebCrash site: Arunachal Pradesh, state in northeast India. The bombs just missed the railway station and I had a wonderful top 3/4 view of the aircraft as it turned after off-loading its bombs and flew south beneath the cloud layer. I bet that took the excitement away from her! We hit the M25 at rush hour on a Friday evening. Will also look at those other resources, might be something else in one or two other books I have. Hello again Gerald. Same perhaps goes for bodies washed ashore; and who would know when they died?. Jeremy, I dont know how close the other lad and myself got to the impact zone of that 410.

MANSTON, KENT. She rushed back to the hole in the ground to see if there was anything she could do, It was quite obvious that there was nothing that could be done.



And uncanny that the engine is in the RAF Battle of Britain museum, it was almost like your mother was meant to be there giving the pilot his last comforts, wonderful to hear it all. 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. There was almost nothing left apart from burned bushes just below the roadside. Dad speaks about the mudflats being dangerous and needing a guide (especially in fog or at night) and things like there being an old seawall & polder (?Canol ffordd Y Cob Porthmadog the Cob and Traeth Mawr, perhaps), a river (?Afon Dwyryd) and a railway line in this area that was used by Spitfires as a navigational aid for nearby gunnery practice schoolkids then collecting the expended ammunition cases into belts for a bounty from the MoD. German bf 109 Pilot Ekkehard Schelcher was over Thanet Kent on that fateful day having flown from his base near Calase (He belonged to the Green heart squadron) He was engaged by R A F planes over thanet and ( presumably ) had been trying to get home across Kent to his airbase in calase ( just thirty miles away) when his plane come down on Hurst Farm I often wonder if it was his plane that had been dammaged or wether he had also been injured and unable to control his plane !! The interactive map shows where every bomb landed, from the first to hit the He was temporarily released back to the family farm and joined the Home Guard.

Ray Hill. On the first pass, the Guardroom, the Sergents Mess and the Airmens block sustained damage, but no lives were lost. And took up soaring for a few years, collecting my silver, gold and diamond badges. This aircraft took off from Paris for a raid on Birmingham but was attacked by a Boulton Paul Defiant night fighter over Redhill. Regards I will get off my soapbox now We were also under the flight path of Doodle Bug alley. I shall take a look Adam, might be a week or so before am able to though, not at home at present. This was in WW 2 in Kent. Local school children, including my 14 year old day, heard of the crash and were soon on it the next morning. So, if this is not your airman Don, I am a bit stumped. Its well worth a trip. WebCrash site of Second World War Dornier bomber (Crash Site) () Hop pickers huts south of Halls Bottom Cottage (Monument) () Hop pickers huts South West of Baliffs Cottage Thanks for your encouraging response. That is the only other part detailed in After the Battle book. After all, we had just been through a world war! The plaque in East Hill, Dartford, remembers the three airmen and three residents who died on 31 July 1941. 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.

On March 12, 1943, the nine-man crew of a B-17F Flying Fortress perished after one of the planes engines caught fire and exploded mid-air during a flight from Smoky Hill Air Field in Salina, Kansas, to Morrison Field in West Palm Beach, Florida. The aircraft crashed and all five on board were killed. Details from LUFTWAFFE CRASH ARCHIVE by Nigel Parker. Here are two relatively easy wrecks you can find in your Blue Ridge backyard. There was so much debris and military junk in general left around Eastbourne, even up to the early 1950s, that nobody would have been much interested in our fragment. I'm not talking about digging big holes or anything, just scratching around with a trowel really. a) if he tampers with, damages, moves, removes or unearths the remains; Which makes it perfectly clear that it is illegal to carry out such an activity without the granting of a License for such an activity. Doodlebugs and Rockets by local historian Bob Ogley is a useful source. This was the first example of a Junkers 88 to fall on Hertfordshire soil during World War Two. I would like to see the book you mention. 2142: 3Z+DK) of 2./KG 77 on public display at Primrose Hill in London, 10 October 1940. I am beginning to wonder if this is not a V1 crater as 19 seem to have been recorded around Mountfield.I will keep looking. WebKent has been at the forefront of manned flight since the 1880s and is thus worthy of the title cradle of aviation. The dead crewman was Oberfeldwebel Herman Platt. north carolina discovery objections / jacoby ellsbury house J. Luksch, Uff F Kuttner and Uff Driessen. This incident (16 Aug 1940) is quite well documented with lots of the usual photos of the wreckage including one with a photographer Harry Deal posing alongside it. Appreciate your help. Can anyone verify this incident? Will reply as soon as poss. I do not know if the site I visited was called Poynings Spring. Lots of photographs, a couple from this crash, the one I mentioned in the other book of the tailplane guarded by a bobby and observed by a few onlookers and another of a memorial card printed for the family of one of the crew, Uff. Dont know what type of plane it was or if is connected to the aircraft panel you purchased. No such memorials are in place here now. Felix Hainzinger. PS..Re story by me above 109 crash at chilham Kent on 1st Sept 1940. Could be one of these Surviving WW2 Aircraft.. Period pictures Information regarding crashed WW2 pl 4 crew bailed out landed on Cradle Hill part of Hindover Hill on Alfriston Seaford Road. A Spitfire went down on the 22nd May 1944 south of Glotenham stream and Sealands Wood, north of Park Pale and Mountfield Park. WebHere, a party from 49 MU drags sections of a crashed aircraft across a Kent hop field.

If I come across anything while looking at Parker, I will let you know. But often although the crash spot is recorded, often where the crew land is sometimes just given as the parish (e.g a Hurricane shot down over Tunbridge Wells crashing at Lake Street Manor, Mayifeld and the injured pilot baling out and landing somewhere in Rotherfield parish). Do 17Z-3 (3458) 5K+GN of 5/KG3 shot down by Pilot Officer P.J.T.

One evening, he was cycling near what is now the Plough Inn at Plumpton Green and was strafed by a German fighter fortunately he recognised the sound and dived into the hedge. Does anyone have any information about the crash or where I might find out more info about it or any othe rlcoal crashes that he recalls? Hi Simon, not been to Sussex alas, at least not looking for air crash sites.
I have a copy of Blitz over Sussex 1941-42 but cannot find any reference to a German aircraft crashing at Saddlescombe. Just Googling round, I found a query on a message board from 6 years ago where a query was posted. At least one other Luftwaffe pilot, Alfred Hoffman was also buried here in September. To the families of the pilots, these crash sites are sacred ground, Wadley says. Unexploded bombs were still being discovered into the 1960s. I believe all crew bailed out but if anyone has information Id be grateful to receive it. hanging from the bushes. Dont suppose you know when in the war it came down? As well as keeping me entertained down the village pub with stories of his own WW2 exploits he would also tell some stories about his dads WW1 experiences & whilst telling one of those he let it slip that his dad had been put in charge of an AA battery somewhere near Lympne during WW2. But, the most interesting thing to me is that it seems highly likely that the four (or was it five) graves I saw in Litlington church yard may have been those of Petersen and crew, prior to their remains being sent to Cannock. Any idea as to the date it came down? Hi Gerald, there was a German bomber which crashed at Poynings Spring, Saddlescombe on the night of 1 June 1941. Its all a bit of a mystery. I remember lots of barbed wire on the seafront and a long section of the pier had been removed in order to hamper invasion forces. Let me know re; the date if you have it? In Kent, over 600 terrestrial wrecks have been recorded and over 300 offshore. Not sure re spitfire crash will ask my dad over the xmas period. And then I saw a reference to Bury FC; I used to follow Bury home and away. A recent report on the excavation of a Spitfire crash site by colleagues from the Defence Infrastructure Organisation illustrates what may be achieved by applying professional standards to wreck excavations. The day before WW2 started, Saturday Sept 2nd, 1939, I was evacuated to Milton Street, Maidstone in Kent. The wireless operator, Gefreiter Edmund Ernst baled out. link, Photo of Ofw Herman Platt who died near Litlington when his parachute failed to open, Map showing the golf course, Rathfinny Farm and Litlington. Military aircraft crash sites may be recognised as archaeological sites and the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979, includes within its definition of monument, crashed aircraft or the remains thereof'. Again Simon Parry has helped this website, he might have scans of contemporary reports if you contact him. But the story is similar to that your dad recalls. If an excavation license is granted it offers advice on best professional practice. So please bear with me. I am still trying to absorb it all. The family still have the parachute handle given to my aunt at the time. walteray.hill29@gmail.com. Ju crew survived a good belly landing a few miles to the east, south-east of Winchester. The Heinkel made a perfect, wheels up landing, coming to a stand some fifty yards short of Border House Farm on Bumpers Lane, near the River Dee. His ME 109 was engaged by RAF planes over the Thames and damaged badly, From what happened after that encounter we can only guess that the pilot was trying to control his stricken plane but lost control and plummeted to the ground in front of my mother At Hurst Farm Chilham Kent. But wonder if the claim to document every Luftwaffe crash in the UK is valid? However, I am not as familiar with that area as you both are, so you may rule it out immediately? They probably struck north when they got to Cuckmere Haven, perhaps using the river as an initial navigational aid. Afraid I have not been able to positively identify a Luftwaffe aircraft crashing at Litlington though there was an airman who was killed near the village in 1941. They will also often have social significance to local communities or the families and friends of aircrew. ok thanks, makes it easier to see which side of the town. Gerald. If they took the engines, hopefully they went to a museum, maybe the Wings Museum? On 22 August 4 unidentified Germans were buried in Chartham cemetery, near Manston, Kent. Yes, I expect the bodies of the crewmen are now at Cannock Chase. As mentioned in email, there is one internet source with a similar photo which states this was probably taken around early November 1940 at Botwell Green and that it is a He-111 (which it clearly is) that had been shot down and put on display. I note you said you went there on you bicycle and found a few bits of twisted metal. I do remember that when I went there, it was a warm summers day. ww2 plane crash sites map kent February 25, 2023 Posted by David AP, remember as a lad finding a canopy of either a spitfire or hurricane on spare land between clifton,the irwell and agecroft collery in manchester,never did find out which it was and i think its been dug up C-49j military cargo plane.

Hello Major Henderson the then owner said he didnt want the site touched but he died some years ago so things might have changed now I think they were after the two engines which I think are still in the ground you could try battle of Britain maybe The photos show quite a bit of debris remaining, though if the crash was close to a road as you say, then it is likely the remains were cleared. One candidate could be Fw Walter Richter who was the Beobachter (Observer) on He111P-4 Wn 3107 G1+PL which crashed at Underwood House, Etchingham, East Sussex at 18:05 on 22 December 1940. Chartham cemetery also contained the grave of A Hoffman, Luftwaffe, killed 15 September, so it was used for Luftwaffe burials, but there was an Alfred Hoffman and also an Andreas Hoffman both killed on 15 September and I dont know which one was in Chartham before Cannock. Nothing in my other books. Thanks also for giving this some thought Simon. 1944 would fit with what I remember being told; apparently the airman seemed just glad to be alive and out of the war. All four members of the bombers crew were killed and at least two of the bodies were taken to Hungerford and placed in the mortuary of the towns psychiatric hospital. There are also some gruesome ones of the pilot Ernst Hollekamp on the roof of the Aldro/Hillbrow school & being lowered in his parachute by Sub-Officer Pat Short. Its the writing in the middle of the back that I cannot identify.

He took me to the site in the sixties and its now a public park and as far as we know are still buried there. No worries, I have waited this long to research this so waiting a little bit longer is not a problem. Many thanks.

By: kev35 Good luck and thanks again ( If I can get more info I want to do a painting of it). Photo courtesy of Raymond Hill. Historic England holds an extensive range of publications and historic collections in its public archive covering the historic environment. After the war, his widow from Germany visited Eastbourne in order to claim her husbands body and was treated very nicely by the townspeople. [ Via] The remains of Junkers Ju 88A-1 (W.Nr.

But, the question remains: if it wasnt from an aircraft, and since there seemed to have been no kind of meaningful activity in that area, how did it come to be there? WebI can look at what German aircraft were shot down going off the maps, but as you can probably imagine, there are a lot of Luftwaffe crash sites in Kent! I am a bit of a broken record on this subject, but the chances are it would end up somewhere else.

Schoolkids were reportedly on site at the time taking souvenirs. Thank You. I was sent from London to Seaford during the V1 strikes in 1944 or maybe early 45, but 44 I think There was a german aircraft crash landed beside the road adjacent to the beach that we passed many times. We lived in Grovesner Ave, Chatham, Kent. I just wish I had a recorder at the time. A contractor cutting bricks for the wall of the partially-restored wild and natural walled garden at Warley Place, Brentwood. 1 other I belive was bomber pilot died when plane crashed near Seaford. You are at the opposite end of the country to me, am Manchester way. 2018: A local Maryland News helicopter team spotted the remains of an old aircraft crash site in the swampy area of a Chesapeake Bay island. The story is a Dornier crashed there, on Sept 15th 1940, a busy day in the skies above my house! H. Schmid I found site looking for information on a downed German bomber somewhere in Neath marshes during Swansea blitz and talked about by local people at the time but i have failed to back up the story told to me a few years ago.

Do let me know. Many thanks. WebFive weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, a Douglas B-18 Bolo Bomber crashed into the side of Mount Waternomee. I have visited here as many Battle of Britain German airmen are buried there alongside hundreds of others. If this does not sound right, do you have an idea as to the date? Wonder if this was the plane ?!? After uprooting two trees it bounced four times along the ground and broke into many pieces, which were spread over an area of about half-a-mile. Somewhat off topic, Rathfinny farm is now the location of one of the largest vineyards in the country. Both men are still unaccounted for.

Hope this helps a bit .Keith Williams. 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 There are 12 volumes I have been looking at vol 8 but let me know if you come across other info and would like me to check the other books. But I will get back to you about this paricular crash site. It was published in 1994 and states that parts of the aircraft are/were still being discovered in the fields and hedgerows where the bomber crashed even then. If you can get hold of the civil defence diary they might be able to shed some light on it.

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