My views
The pilot wasn,t lynched.His chute caught on a lamp post and the unfortunate pilot was beaten and knifed to death by angry East Enders as they had been given a rather rough time by the bombers the days previous.Or is it another pilot I,m thinking off as the one I read about was from a He111.It all happened too fast before the constabilarary got there.I have seen the film footage before and it is quite scarey to watch.The forces having ripped off the outer wings before the remains falling to crash quite heavily onto a train station.I think????
Yes Holmes was pretty desperate,and lucky too..Not the only time I have heard a pilot resort to those tactics.
I thank both Andy and Dilip for their candor in this matter of Bader.I have enjoyed this thread for it,s honesty and heart and learnt more about things that go on behind the scenes.I believe in a hundred years there still will be people chasing after plane wrecks.Instead of WW2 aircraft they might be after Vietnam era AC or Gulf War.The difference between Aircraft Archeolagy and traditional Archeolagy is that one digs up remains to find out about history where the other digs up history to find remains.They both can learn from each other…..Oh when I met Mark12 when he was over here I felt like tying him too a chair and torturing him with a feather to get all of his Spitfire knowledge out of him… :p Saves on buying manuals… 😀
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