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Spitfire crash 11th October 1940
grandarog:
Thanks again for input chaps.
Regarding small link inserts .I have found the only way that works for me is to open the post again with Modify button. Select the mini line of the link , then go to the Font size dropdown and select 12 or 14. This brings the link size up so when I save post it is readable.
Hope this helps .
Maybe Stuart could look into it when he has time,as it never used to happen.
Cosmo Smallpiece:
I had no more luck with the button poking in my previous post than you did Nemo!
I will drop the images from 72 Sqn ORB here so that everyone can see what was being talked about. I'm guessing the two pilots down later (08:40hrs) are possibly the two guys that Pool claimed hung around to shepherd his descent. The others seemed to have returned in dribs and drabs? I did notice that three others had already returned by 08:10 hrs which had caused me to presume that the incident would not have happened that far from B-H?
Nemo:
I suspect Grandarog is correct when he says that a complete solution is doubtful.
Neither Pool nor Squadron 72's ORBs give a location for the interception, the latter saying only that the intention was for the 11 Spitfires up from BH at 07:35 to patrol off Deal (at 10,000ft). They were back at BH without further loss by 08:43 and with no claims made.
Assuming I'm reading them correctly, German records are no help either; two pilots from Stab II/JG 53 claimed a Spitfire at 08:55 (their time?) but the location is not recorded.
(Drat, poked the button and still the link appears small; that's my Kindle for you!)
http://aces.safarikovi.org/luftwaffe.wartime.aerial.victory.credits.html
Cosmo Smallpiece:
It's a shame Dorissdad has not popped back here since. I would be curious as why he seeks this location and what sources he may have already tried?
If he does, it's worth highlighting the only rough location given for the spitfire crash is the vicinity of the paper mill. I wonder if the pilot logbook (possibly in family hands) gave up that information?
In the link I first posted, Swift to Battle, there is a further image of Peter Pool on the page following the account of his parachute descent. This image of him and Diana is credited to D.E.Pool, probably his wife Diana Eileen Pool?
grandarog:
Cosmo Smallpiece's Post raises some very good points.
Might I suggest that in actual fact P/O Pool actually baled out a lot nearer to Sittingbourne than he thought.
Looking down on East Kent from 22.000 feet ( just over 4 Miles altitude)gives a very wide view. While the combat started over Deal, he may have assumed he was still directly above, when in fact he could have been any where within 30 miles or so and still be able to look down on Deal from that height.
Also he says "at least 20 mins". I don't think we will find a complete solution to this incident.
Hopefully Dorissdad Jeremy will log on soon and perhaps have some more info about his question.
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