Dornier tail fin washed up on Kent beach – 2010 thread

I agree.

I’m sure there are bunches of other WW2 bits just off the coast.

Try www.lostaircraft.com then go to map…

regards
jack…

Amazing. Now go and search for the rest of it !

I agree.

I’m sure there are bunches of other WW2 bits just off the coast.

Shame the Luftwaffe didn’t deploy any Dornier landplanes to Norway….we’d be pulling them out of freshwater fjords. Wonder why they didn’t deploy any Dornier 17s up north ? Or did they ? Talking of Norway if all goes well we should have another 109 to admire soon http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/images/smilies/smile.gif

Very easy to get information like that out in morse code via a Gene Krupa drum solo. I believe ‘Sing Sing Sing’, loosely translated, actually means ‘Tora Tora Tora’.

See! The conspiracy theory deepens! Mr Saunders, I think we have the basis of a best selling book. Must check the guest list for the Stork Hotel..that would add some meat to the story. I must also dig out that old copy of the Sunday Sport just to see if that “WW2 Bomber” was in fact a Norseman.

Regards;
Steve

Of course he was!

His name was actually Glenn Muller. Think about it. A famous band leader, the perfect cover for a spy, not to mention all that access he got to all of those allied bases during those tours. The amount of information he must have gathered would have been vast!

Regards;
Steve

Very easy to get information like that out in morse code via a Gene Krupa drum solo. I believe ‘Sing Sing Sing’, loosely translated, actually means ‘Tora Tora Tora’.

It will probably have been linked to on a site like fark.com or something like that

Just a note that for some reason this has resurfaced on the BBC web site’s “Most Read” list this morning. Any ideas?

Adrian

I suspect that if KW were to meet DB in the bar of the sunlit uplands, there wouldn’t be a very warm welcome for him.

A quick google shows that KW was still posting his Bader fantasies a few months ago though.

[Thread creep]

Last time I looked Mr William’s scurrilous site was gone.

I wonder can we now safely assume he is lifting a heavenly pint with a legless, but sober, fighter pilot and discussing Birkenhead?

If so, respect for the man for his wartime service, despite the dishonour of his later years’ exploits on the web.

Moggy

Aah but MI6 was on to him, and released the famous Douglas Bader from nazi captivity to shoot him down.

After he vanished he had a room at The Stork Hotel. I know a chap who looked after him….

Lol very good. :p

German spy?

Of course he was!

His name was actually Glenn Muller. Think about it. A famous band leader, the perfect cover for a spy, not to mention all that access he got to all of those allied bases during those tours. The amount of information he must have gathered would have been vast!

Regards;
Steve

I thinks its Glenn Millers aircraft you are all wrong !:)

Glenn Miller was a Nazi ? serious allegations…..

I was intending to refer to the Log Book of Spitfire pilot Plt Off J J O’Meara who claimed to have shot down two German bombers over Kent on 8 August 1940 when there were only Me 109’s in the sky. I have recently covered this in “Convoy Peewit”.

Possibly you had some other Dornier 17/Me 109 confusion in mind, Nick.

Yes the Dornier17/Me 109 confusion as discussed earlier, by a lot of confused people with the wrong facts who thought I had something to do with it which of course I DID NOT 😡

My apologies Andy didn’t realise you were refering to something else.

Over the years there have been quite a few Dornier 17 wrecks found/uncovered around the East Kent shoreline and Bill Gent of Southend also had a substantial section of Do 17 tail many years ago that had been pulled out of the sea in the same vicinity. I wonder where that is now?

Actually I thought the He111/Me109 reference was a nod in the direction of the two bickering youngsters spotting E/A on the shore in Battle Of Britain: “They’s Messerschmitts!” “No they ain’t…they’s ‘Einkels!”:D

Pity not one of the Dornier bombers/nightfighters survives.

S.

I thinks its Glenn Millers aircraft you are all wrong !:)

Hell of a find…must be worth a bit of a look to see what else is down there…where are me wellies?

Not again please:rolleyes:

ben