Luftwaffe Bombers in the Battle of Britain: Rare photographs from wartime archives (Images of War) by Andy Saunders

Author:Andy Saunders [Saunders, Andy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Bisac Code 1: HISTORY / Military / Aviation
ISBN: 9781473837539
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2014-06-29T21:00:00+00:00

Rather less intact was another Stuka of 3./StG2 which ploughed into the ground at Honor Farm, Pagham, that day. The aircraft totally disintegrated, killing its pilot Uffz Paul Linse (inset) and Ogefr Rudolf Messerschmidt.

A soldier examines a shattered piece of the crashed Stuka’s wing at Honor Farm that bears the remnants of one of the crosses. Little else that was recognisable survived the ferocity of the crash or the subsequent fire and explosion.

This Stuka of 3./StG2 and its crew fared rather better than some of the others brought down after the raid on Tangmere of 16 August 1940. Shot down by fighters, the aircraft careered across the Church Norton to Selsey Road before coming to a halt in a roadside hedge. On its bumpy passage across fields, a road, a pavement and then through a hedge, the undercarriage legs were torn off before the Stuka finally ground to a halt. Both crew members were wounded, but taken POW. Bizarrely, it was reported that the radio operator/air gunner had an American Stars & Stripes flag in his possession when taken into captivity.

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