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Forgotten frontline exhibition: How Luftwaffe air crew fought on Kent marshes
The Luftwaffe bomber was in trouble. The Junkers 88 had delivered 4,000lb bombs to London but then it was hit by anti-aircraft fire. Then Spitfires and Hurricanes pounced, but they didn't seek to destroy the Nazi plane. The pilots from 66 and 92 squadrons saw that this was Junkers 88 - only two weeks old model and fitted with a secret new bombsight. Earlier an order had gone out to all units to capture Junkers 88, intact. The German pilot Fritz Ruhlandt made a forced landing on the Kent marshes. The Luftwaffe crew, armed with two machine guns, opened fire towards soldiers from the 1st London Irish Rifles - resulting the only WWII battle on the British mainland.
Forgotten frontline exhibition tells how Luftwaffe fought with soldiers on Kent marshes
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Re: Forgotten frontline exhibition: How Luftwaffe air crew fought on Kent marshes
"Grabbed their rifles and ran out of the pub"............. great story!
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Re: Forgotten frontline exhibition: How Luftwaffe air crew fought on Kent marshes
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"Grabbed their rifles and ran out of the pub"....
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Re: Forgotten frontline exhibition: How Luftwaffe air crew fought on Kent marshes
jonesy saying to captain mainwarring springs to mind!they dont like it up em!! 
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Re: Forgotten frontline exhibition: How Luftwaffe air crew fought on Kent marshes
Great stuff PzJgr!
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Re: Forgotten frontline exhibition: How Luftwaffe air crew fought on Kent marshes
What a great story.
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Re: Forgotten frontline exhibition: How Luftwaffe air crew fought on Kent marshes
fantastic story , thanks for posting PzJgr
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Re: Forgotten frontline exhibition: How Luftwaffe air crew fought on Kent marshes
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"Grabbed their rifles and ran out of the pub"............. great story!
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Re: Forgotten frontline exhibition: How Luftwaffe air crew fought on Kent marshes
irish heritage... drinking and looking for a fight..overestimation i know.. but its the blarney..great story.
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Re: Forgotten frontline exhibition: How Luftwaffe air crew fought on Kent marshes
and so was the life of the home guard!
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Re: Forgotten frontline exhibition: How Luftwaffe air crew fought on Kent marshes
Nice story, those Germans certainly put up a fight!
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Re: Forgotten frontline exhibition: How Luftwaffe air crew fought on Kent marshes
Great article.
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Re: Forgotten frontline exhibition: How Luftwaffe air crew fought on Kent marshes
Great story. Are the 1st London Irish Rifles still around or had they been disbanded over the post-war decades with defence cuts, regiment reorganisation/s, and the rest?
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