document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Your email address will not be published. The relocated church archives do exist elsewhere apparently, but I live in the USA so I cant do much in regard to accessing those. If I find out anything further, I will drop you a line. Thank you for your response, I am amazed that there is this type of info collated somewhere. Thanks to former Stanhoe resident Arthur Walker for most of the information on these crash sites. 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. This street is I would love to see some pics of it. Crashed WW2 Aircraft.. Losses due to military action during World War I and World War II are not included. The Gypsum Mines are/were at Mountfield (not Mount Field) which is about 3 miles north west of Battle on the A21 London Hastings road.

She was born in 1938, so was very young at the time. 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 One of the so-called Baedecker Raids, perhaps. Happy Days. Hi Dave, good to hear from you again. Thanks. Historic Environment Records (HERs) also have an important role to play in the protection of aircraft wreck sites. Ju crew survived a good belly landing a few miles to the east, south-east of Winchester. Both my parents came from East Sussex farming families. Less understandable is the practice of pinching stuff now and selling it on e-bay.

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. Find out about services offered by Historic England for funding, planning, education and research, as well as training and skill development. We are researching local history for the village. And then silence . Sorry, I do not recall dates or any other info from those white crosses. We will never know perhaps just a detail of a bygone historical Battle of Britain incident.. ray.andsue@hotmail.co.uk Theydon Bois Essex any aditional info would be gretely received . Following a collision with Pilot-Officer Stephenson of 607 Squadron. According to the German source, the captions refer to Do 17Z-2s of 9/KG 76. Not being familiar with the area, I had a map centred on the villages in the area. Photographer: Unknown photographer for John Laing plc, Historic England Archive John Laing Collection. My mother knew Helmuts future wife Crystal. 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. In the book German Bombers Over England, there is a fascinating photo of several Do-17s flying seemingly below cliff level, just east of Cuckmere Haven (which is very close to Litlington! I assume it will cover Sussex in a bit more detail. Ive never been able to find photos of the crash site even though it sounds like the wreckage was strewn around. Interestingly-enough, the fifth member of the crew was a Dr. Otto Sommer, who is described on the Web as a politician (i.e member of the Nazi Party). It came down at Bletchinglye Farm, Rotherfield, East Sussex after the controversial raid on Croydon (attacked in error thinking it was Kenley and against Hitlers orders of hitting civilian targets) To make matters worse the RAF had scrambled Sqns waiting for them so in their efforts to hit and run most bombs and damage was inflicted on outlying civilian factories causing many deaths for the loss of 6no. A group of volunteers from The Friends of Balaam's Wood Local Nature Reserve clearing brambles at Gannow Green Moated Site, New Frankley in Birmingham, Two horsemen reading The Sportsman, 30 Oct 1902, Farnborough, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire. If not, as I say, some further detail as to the approximate date or the year or even the time of year would help, and of course anything further as to the location.

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Anybody got any comments? I remember visiting the he 111 on Cairnsmore of fleet. Might anyone have further data. Unteroffizier Kurt Seiffert (Air Gunner). north carolina discovery objections / jacoby ellsbury house Dornier crashed Cropwell Bishop, Nottinghamshire. Hi Simon, Does anyone have any clues? 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. I found notes gun crew in Seaford say they hit a bomber, they also mention airmans body found on Cradle Hill. Parker says the unit was identified from an ID disc and that the remains of the airmen are reported to have been removed from the site of the crash immediately after the event, but their subsequent fate is an enduring mystery. Also mentions the monument erected in 1951. Sometimes human remains were left (but not buried) at crash sites where the impact caused such trauma that the human remains were hard to identify and were impossible to recover. With surviving crew taken into captivity for example the famous Haifisch/shark mouth Bf110 at Cousley Wood 4/9/40. Will take another look and get back to you over the weekend. Indonesian forestry workers found the crash site in Papua in 2018. Of the 5 crew, 4 survived including the pilot. The pilot, Ltn Klaus Conrad, ordered his crew to bail out, and he stayed at the helm and managed to crash land the aircraft on the golf course. 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. We didnt find that but we did find a battered section of aluminum to which was attached some kind of rubbery/spongy material. It was like a ghost town, since about 75% of the population had been evacuated in 1940. As the wreckage was spread over a wide area it is possible that parts were discovered at Saddlescombe. Would really appreciate any information or better still a picture of the battery. Wonder if this was the plane ?!? Parker provides Do17Z-2 Wn 1176 5K+DN as having been attacked by several Spitfires over the Thames estuary at 1500 on the 15th.

I am still trying to learn more about the four graves of Luftwaffe aircrew that I saw in Litlington (East Sussex) church yard sometime around 1949/50. Are there any records/books you could recommend, which could help me find this information?

The image here is from wikipedia commons. Simon Parry has been of invaluable assistance to me regarding my own research of aircraft downed in my parish and might be able to shed some more light on the crash although as it did not happen during The Battle of Britain I dont know whether he has as much information to hand. So please bear with me. So we know roughly when this was. At the moment though Im focussed on more recent events. All five crewmen were killed and now lie in the Cannock Chase German cemetery. I looking for information on an Anti- Aircraft battery located at Burham in Kent during the WWII. All i know is that Uffz Wemhoner survived and ended up as a POW. I was about 13 or 14 years old and my interest in WWII and aviation had only just begun. Living in Sussex myself I cant find any record of any buried near there now so I assume the bodies were exhumed and reinterred at the German Military Cemetery in Cannock Chase later. A landowner in Hazel St, Horsmonden has told me he has had on more than one occasion archaeologists ask him and visit a lake on his land to find a missing German bomber (without success). Because whatever we may think of the Luftwaffe and the terrible havoc that they rained down on us he was still some mothers son who never came home. I have googled Essex Aviation Group but it seems to be an aircraft firm now. I've put it on a map, similar to PlaneCrashMap here, and have used what I've learned on this site to make it more I have an entry in a crash diary that says exactly this Hi John, I have taken a look but have found nothing concrete Im afraid. I got my RAF wings at Ternhill in 1950. Next up 2 RAF fighters from the same campaign 1940. On the first pass, the Guardroom, the Sergents Mess and the Airmens block sustained damage, but no lives were lost. I will search to see if I can find any photos of the crew. This was in WW 2 in Kent. This was the first example of a Junkers 88 to fall on Hertfordshire soil during World War Two. Good weather allowed the spectators on the ground to watch as the following events unfolded. The owner has thrown millions into an ultra modern winery with 10 times the normal size vineyard. 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 ? But if you know it came in over your house, I suspect you have already looked. https://www.francisfrith.com/uk/netherfield,east-sussex/a-forgotten-piece-of-netherfield-history_memory-152301, Hi, Im doing some research for the 80th anniversary of the battle of britain in chilham and wondered if you knew of the location on the farm? Will take a look later Peter, see if I have anything on it. Twyford is not far, so it could be the the location of the the crash site. The pilot told them he was sorry & didnt want to fight but was made too! He was Oberleutnant Ekkehard Schelcher A gruppe Staff Officer of the Jagd Geschwader 54 Gruenherze ( green hearts ) If you can get hold of the civil defence diary they might be able to shed some light on it.

I did contact a Litlington Church administrator a few years back and he said that the young daughter of the vicar at the time (1940?) WebThis research guide will help you to find air raid reports, Bomb Census maps and sometimes photographs of bomb damage sustained during air raids in the Second World War. was flattened one night.He remembers collecting bits of metal possibly shrapnel from the streets around for days afterwards) Many thanks John, Hi John, I will take a look in the books I have and get back to you. McComb, Flying Officers M.P. There is an interesting photo in the book German Bombers Over England of several Do-17s flying at or below cliff level, just east of Cuckmere Haven, on their way to bomb RAF Kenley, according to the caption. I am interested in trying to establish where the picture was taken and if these are KG54 aircraft. GB445558329. He said he & a friend, both in the army were having dinner together when they heard the plane was in trouble, they looked up the road as it hit the steeple of a church, they raced up to where the plane was on fire in a field & managed to get the pilot out! I have found a Propeller Pitch Indicator mount from a ME109 or Heinkel 110 on deenethorpe airbase which I find really odd as I am not aware of any luftwaffe planes that crashed in this area. The detail is rather vivid as to the violent demise of these two flyers and why not much recognizable anything was immediately found.There are other accounts on my website of LW flyers with more favorable outcomes at the end of the war. But the story is similar to that your dad recalls. Good stuff Simon, thank you for adding this. Nigel McCrery 07969-205893 BBC TV. There is a strange symmetry with some of this story as I also lived in Croydon before moving here. If you know about a wartime American crash site, its location, type of aircraft, or personnel involved please share this information with the American Air Museum. Im struggling. When calls to action occurred, our teachers allowed us kids to rush to the windows to watch the engines race out of those hangars. Ian, Hi do you have any info on a Bf 110 shot down in a field near Tandridge/Godstone Surrey I believe the pilots name was Ruger who was killed. It unloaded its bombs in the sea and they exploded with a deafening crash. To the families of the pilots, these crash sites are sacred ground, Wadley says. Of the five crew on board, three were killed and two survived, the Flugzeugfhrer (pilot) Stabsfeldwebel Dirk Hfkes and the Bordfunker (wireless op) Unteroffizier Johann Hesek, they baled out and were captured. I was very young boy living in Oxford during the war and dont remember much except for the noise of the German bombers going over (Born 1939) and searchlights. He escaped after standing in the water for periods over 3 days and I believe was evacuated on the last day. Theres a crater in the woods next to my house. Fatally disabled and with no landing gear deployed the Heinkel and Spitfire passed low over the heads of spectators standing on Salisbury Street, in Shotton, Deeside. So please bear with me. Of the four bombs that landed in the city itself, all rolled around the streets and never exploded except one: it killed my wifes schoolfriend.