Amazing images however the point I was trying to make was that the challenge is trying to find a particular aircraft, reading the articles it seems that the P47 was found and then they worked backwards to try and establish identity rather than starting with a identity and setting off to find it.

As Grahame says, fishermen always know something, however as the nephew of a pot fisherman thier tales sometimes need to be treated with a degree of skepticism. As a young boy I was regaled by my aforementioned Uncle with tales of all the German aircraft sat in Chichester harbour……

All joking aside lost nets and snagged trawls/pot strings must account for the discovery of many many wrecks of vessels and aircraft.

How feesable is it really to find a particular aircraft in the sea?

I spent much of my formative years diving in the channel, sometimes finding 3000 ton shipwrecks could be challenge, let alone trying to locate a (according to wiki) 3,400kg airframe, which has impacted the sea, suffered 74 years of tidal movement, possibly been smashed by a trawl or had a dredger go over it.

On occasions you might come across engines and larger parts however this was normally the result of nets catching rather than a focused search, and more often or not in relatively inshore waters where witnesses may have seen the crash.

All credit to those who have the desire to try however sometimes I think there needs to be a reality check, the channel by any measure is not a massive area in comparison with say the Atlantic but it’s big enough when trying to search for what was a relatively small object and by now will be a large number of much smaller objects…….

Hi all,

I have a pub related query that one of you may be able to answer.
I knew an air gunner that flew during the Battle of Britain.
He had served at Tangmere and recalled that they used a pub that was very close to the Aerodrome named ‘The Tangmere Arms’.
Despite searching for records of this pub I haven’t been able to find anything to confirm its existence.
Can anyone confirm that there was a pub located next to the airfield named The Tangmere Arms.
Cheers in advance
Gerry

I suspect the location in question was the ‘Tangmere Hotel’ which was demolished during the runway extensions , rather confusingly this was situated to the South of Tangmere village and much closer to Oving. An old parish map from the mid 1800’s places the pub near to where the present day footpath from Oving to Tangmere starts on the SW corner of the old peri-track.