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Downed German aircraft

In late 1945 or early 1946, I was taken by my parents to see an exhibition of army and air force on the land beside the Hall of Memory in
Broad Street Birmingham. I recall walking past a Spitfire which to me seemed enormous, I had seen plenty in the sky over Castle Bromwich but had never seen on the ground. There was also a depiction of the work of the Bomb Disposal which showed a deep hole in which as man (a dummy) working on a 500lb German bomb. I am sure that photographs of this exhibition featured in Birmingham's local papers.
 
I remember reading a thread similar to this some time back and I posted a photo of a crashed bomber. but the OP said that the aircraft they remembered was a was a Messerschmitt I came across this yesterday it was taken in September 1940 and it was part of a display on Broad Street by the Colonnade to raise funds for the Lord Mayors Spitfire Fund. The aircraft had made a forced landing in Sussex some earlier that year.
 

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How fascinating! I found another photo of the same aircraft, and a colour scheme, it was a Messerschmidt Bf-109E-1 of 5./JG27 flown by Oblt. Erwin Daig. On 9th September 1940 Daig was on a fighter escort mission accompanying bombers to London. At 20,000 feet he was attacked by fighters , Daig's fighter suffered damage to it's fuel and engine cooling systems forcing him to land at Charity Farm near Parham, Sussex, where he was taken prisoner.
 

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Phil said:
I remember reading a thread similar to this some time back and I posted a photo of a crashed bomber. but the OP said that the aircraft they remembered was a was a Messerschmitt I came across this yesterday it was taken in September 1940 and it was part of a display on Broad Street by the Colonnade to raise funds for the Lord Mayors Spitfire Fund. The aircraft had made a forced landing in Sussex some earlier that year.
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Is that a Spitfire I can see, banking around just above the large building ?

It's a bit like "Spot the Ball", look where the sentries are looking.
 
maypolebaz said:
Is that a Spitfire I can see, banking around just above the large building ?

It's a bit like "Spot the Ball", look where the sentries are looking.
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I've just taken a look at the original photograph and it is definitely an aircraft of some sort, possibly a spitfire.
 
Pimpernel said:
Regarding the crashed Heinkel in Rumbush Lane, Earlswood, there's a page about it on the Solihull borough council site: https://www.solihull.gov.uk/Resident/Libraries/Local-family-history/bombingsinsolihull/ww2casualties5

Here's also a report of a crashed He111 at Blackthorne Road, Smethwick: https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/15/a4315015.shtml
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Wow! I actually live on Hales Lane and there is some newer style houses at the bottom of the road towards the Cricket Club, I'm assuming that is where the plane came down. I guessed there had been bomb damage as there is the same type of houses in Sabell Road and Cheshire Road where bombs fell, not a German plane landing there. I've looked at old photographs in the Sandwell archives of bomb damage in Smethwick, but the roads are not specifically named. I guess Smethwick was also a target because of the heavy industry such as The Birmid.

Ive also read somewhere that a German plane came down in West Smethwick Park towards the end of the war (around 1944), the occupants were arrested and taken I believe to Piddock Road Police Station until Army officials collected them.

Hope it is all right to include this as it is technically "over the border"!
 
I spent the first 20 years of my married life in Smethwick and left there 30 years ago so my memory is not t0o reliable but I can pinpoint some areas of bomb damage. Corner of Lewisham Road and Oxford Road, houses missing, was used as Evered Co Ltd car park for many years also going up Oxford Road there is a group of 1950s? dwellings filling a gap in the houses, possibly replacing bomb damaged homes. Look out for 1950s built homes amongst late 19th/early 20th century buildings.
 
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