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Re: Bf 109E-4 ditched off Folkstone

Posted by Ross McNeill on Sun Jun 30, 2002 06:13:45 AM

In reply top Bf 109E-4 ditched off Folkstone posted by Mike Olrog on Sun Jun 30, 2002 05:58:35 AM

Hi Mike,

The position was subject to clearance by wire sweep in the 1950s.

The files of the Royal National Lifeboat Institute record the following details on the event:

FOLKESTONE, KENT.
Shortly before ten in the morning of the 23rd September, 1940, a German aeroplane came down in the sea about half-way between the pier of the Southern Railway and Copt Point. Two men in a fishing boat, which was near, went at once to the rescue, and an army officer and a lance-corporal jumped into the sea from Folkestone pier, and swam to the aeroplane. The lance-corporal reached it first, found that the pilot was badly wounded, and helped him into the fishing boat which had now arrived. - Rewards, 15s. and 2s. 6d. for fuel used.

Regards
Ross

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