The 8th USAAF had a designated jettison area in the North Sea at a point 50 miles E of Southwold, Suffolk. I dread to think how many thousands of...
Think his Hurri overturned on landing - or was this the a/c which hit a house at Playford ? I know it was early 1940. When I visited to photograph...
No, I lost the site (and the plot ?) but have attached the pics I found on there:
Fair enough. We had a few (V-1s, not beers!) in Suffolk and a couple of narrow squeaks here in LT from those air-launched from He 111s towards...
BUT -is it a German V-1 Flying Bomb, or one of the US-produced "Loon" Flying Bombs? :noidea::noidea::noidea:
I found two pics of McElroy examining damage to a propeller blade and rudder of a Spit purported to have been HIS after this action on another site,...
A sad, but fascinating story.
The East Kirkby restoration is principally parts from the Swedish Hampden wreck found in 1976
The same bloke gave us Carmichael's FAA Korean War Sea Fury MiG 15 shoot-down as "..the first time a piston-engined fighter had shot down a jet" (...
The guy who has done the commentary for the Lowestoft (Suffolk UK) Air Fest for the past 10 years always comes out with a load of tosh about the...
This is an extraordinary write-up. Power to their elbow, say I. BC
Interesting story. There were no claims by the Me 410 intruder crews of 14/KG.2 that night. BC
Spot on, well done. A lot of people in Britain still knock the French, but it is worth remembering that these people not only risked their lives,...
morse1001: I am curious to know a bit more about the pic of the Halifax crew being picked up by HSL103 on your posts. Do you know when and where,...
Shortly after the Iraqi surrender, a couple of pics of an RAF Tornado with a lot of skinning blown off the top of the port wing appeared in "The Sun"...
There is a superb bronze relief memorial to those courageous people in the occupied countries who helped Allied airmen evade capture in the RAF...
Do you have any pics of P-47s showing battle/collision damage ? Have found a few of the '47 in England and Italy having taken some hard knocks, but...
Once again, many thanks. I obviously came to the right place with this enquiry ! BC
Spidge and Kyt, again, many thanks. I am 50 years old, live in Suffolk, UK, and have had a lifelong interest in (principally) WW 2 air war history....
Spidge, many thanks. Another great battle-damage picture sadly lacking in detail. I am putting together pictures of crippled/shot-up aircraft...
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