Thank you both very much. Yes thats the one. The photos were taken by my friend’s father, in the RN, so couldn’t work out why he might be on a Dutch carrier. Mystery solved. The picture I have shows the pilot breaking the world high jump record as he exits the cockpit as the flames take hold. I hope he was ok.

Thank you everyone. I have ordered a copy of the book for old times sake. I recall tramping over the Yorkshire moors in the 1970s armed with the book and on occasions actually found some wreckage! I recall a photo of a crashed, reasonably intact HE177 which had scat itself over a railway embankment. When I get the book I will try and post the picture. It didn’t identify the crash location I recall. I always wondered if this was a U.K crash?

Thank you both very much. I have also heard another forum the book might well be by Brian Rapier’s ‘Warplanes return’. Twin Otter I would appreciate you having a look the content at NAM as I don’t want to buy until I know it is the right one!

Many thanks for that. K

No prob. K

Thank you Allan. I have the intelligence reports on the crash. Are any of other sources you mention likely to have ‘mug shots’ of the Luftwaffe personnel?

Thank you all very much. That is what it is, rather battered with 2 of the thread unions sheared off. The plane was shot down by a nightfighter, John Booth the pilot and John Terry the Mid Upper were killed , 1 evaded and 4 POWs. I was a friend of the evader and have a photo of him in the 1970s laughing with the farmers family as he tried on his canary Taylor suit that they had kept since the war. I visited the farm in the 1980s to be shown where he had been hidden. Sadly the suit was long gone!