Ann Steiner
master brummie
Is there a website or list anywhere that chronicles German aircraft downed during the war in the Birmingham area -- locations of where they crashed?
Ann
Ann
Not sure which post you are responding to Don? Do you have any further information about a downed German plane and where was this?Was it 1977 that hot summer with Ladybirds i did all my courting around Earlswood in my motorbike days i recall they found a crashed german plane?
Not sure which post you are responding to Don? Do you have any further information about a downed German plane and where was this?
I have no idea of "downed" German aircraft, but I do remember, early in the war, seeing a captured Messerschmitt 109 fighter plane on display outside the Hall of Memory in Broad Street. Large crowds saw it and it was displayed, I believe, to raise money for War Bonds. I remember that the plane looked in pretty good condition. Later during the war they also displayed a Lancaster bomber at the same venue.
REWIND That hot summer must have been before 77 cus in 77 i was in Belfast having bricks thrown at me.
Thanks Don - I have checked to see if my memory was correct about the incident and you have the year bang on. A body was found but as it was nothing to do with the Luftwaffe I will forward it to you by Private Message.