I was still in short pants at the time, but some of our more senior brethren.. may be able to decode this news article from the 1970’s.. more to come (if you want them)
The Times, Monday, Oct 16, 1972
“Wartime Bomb Found
Major David Durham, aged 36, of the Royal Engineers’ bomb disposal unit at Chatham, Kent, spent two hours and a half yesterday “steaming” explosives out of a 500lb wartime German bomb found in the wreckage of a Junkers 87 Stuka bomber at Chidham, near Chichester, by a salvage team from the Battle of Britain Museum at Langley, Kent”
A bit of googling identifies a Ju 87B of 2/StG 77 that was shot down and North Barn, Chidham, Sussex on 18th August 1940.. Is this one and the same incident and can anyone supply an actual ID for this aircraft
Same one….
The Blitz then and now, Volume 1
3/S1G77 Junkers Ju87B,1.
Shot down by RAF fighters during dive,bombing attack on Thorney Island.
Possibly that which crashed and burned out at North Barn. Chidham 2.30 pm Oberlt. D. Lehmann and Uffz. H. Winiarski both
missing believed killed. Aircraft a write,off. Although official contemporary reports on this incident mention the death of the crew, no record of their actual recovery, identification or burial has been traced
Book states parts recovered by Battle of Britain Museum at Langley and says bomb destroyed
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March 29, 2011 at 11:19 am