By: Al - 1st January 2013 at 09:55
A few mentions on the web…
Recollections of a 1939 Evacuee
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/82/a3071882.shtml
“So there we were, safely evacuated away from the danger of being involved in air raids on Edinburgh, the very first German bomber to be shot down on British soil landed on the bleak moors at Humbie, the second, a Heinkel 111 brought down 1215, 9th Feb 1940, 3 survivors 1 dead, in a field on Rhodes farm at the back of the town, again it was overrun with souvenir hunting school lads during their lunch break before the authorities managed to fence it off, eventually it was loaded on to an artic-lorry known as a ‘Queen Mary’ taken to RAF Turnhouse aerodrome in Edinburgh, it was learned after many years that same German bomber was totally re-fitted and used operationally by the RAF.”
http://www.visitoruk.com/historydetail.php?id=21867&cid=1207&f=Musselburgh
By: wilkofife - 1st January 2013 at 07:37
Thank you for that information. Will forward to the photo owner . 🙂
By: wieesso - 1st January 2013 at 03:01
…some additional images
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v369/RedToo/He-111-Crash-Landing.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v369/RedToo/HE-111-Captured.jpg
By: RadarArchive - 1st January 2013 at 01:40
This is the Heinkel 111 which made a forced landing at Rhodes Farm, near North Berwick on 9 February 1940. This was the result of an attack by S/Ldr Douglas Farquhar of No 602 Squadron.
The aircraft, coded 1H+EN was repaired, given the RAF serial AW177 and ended up with No 14265 (Enemy Aircraft) Flight. It was eventually lost on 10 November 1943 when the aircraft stalled at Polebrook, killing seven of the eleven men on board.
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