I think the first is quite well known, but what was the last enemy aircraft to be shot down/crash on the British Isles? Where and when?
And I suppose the other bit might be what, where, and when was the last British aircraft lost to enemy action on or over the British Isles in WWII?
Hope it isn’t asking too much of you!
Flood.
By: RadarArchive - 25th December 2003 at 09:55
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think the blackout regulations were relaxed a little in 1944, following the success of the landings in Normandy. I’m sure that it wasn’t until the end of the war in Europe in May 1945 before they were completely lifted. Perhaps they should have been lifted earlier, if it helped bring down German aircraft! 😉
By: Transall - 25th December 2003 at 01:16
Didn’t Guy Gibson get a fine for driving with full headlights (against blackout regulations) earlier in the war?
I guess the rules had become less strict in 1945.
Best wishes, Transall.
By: RadarArchive - 25th December 2003 at 00:38
I believe the last Grman aircraft to crash in Britain during the Second World War was Junkers Ju88G-6 s/n 620028 of 13/NJG3 which mistook a car’s headlights for an aircraft on the runway at Elvington and crashed into a tree during its attack. This took place at 1.51 am on the morning of 4 March 1945. Two other Ju88G-6s crashed that morning, a few minutes earlier, one making an identical mistake in Lincolnshire and another crashing into the ground during an attack on a B-24 in Suffolk.
Incidentally, on 2 May 1945 a Ju 188A-3 from 9/KG26 (s/n 190335 1H+AT) defected to Fraserburgh in Scotland from Tronheim. This is, as far as I know, the last German aircraft to end up in Britain before the surrender, and came from the same unit – KG26 – which lost the first aircraft to land intact on British soil on 28 October 1939.
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