[nickle]

Thankyou gentleman.

I've seen gravelroots, but this is just one of a few accounts. I have all sorts of accounts that it was a Heinkel 111 or a Ju88, it was being chased by a Beaufighter, it was jettisoning its bombs, it was coming from this direction, it was coming from that direction. "Did you actually see it...?" I'd ask only to be told "no" but that's "probably" what it was... My source, the best I have yet, actually saw it and is adamant. He recognised it first by the sound of its engines then, as he told me: “It appeared out of the rain and was flying low, about 150 feet, and even on a murky day like this, seemed to cast a dark shadow. The plane was a Junkers 88, but painted jet black, with a red swastika on the tail fin, quite unlike the camouflaged planes we saw normally.” I thought I was pretty good with a/c recognition, but he was explaining differences in types of German a/c that I had no clue about, so this is the best eye witness account I have and have no reason to disbelieve it.

Also, the time the school was hit would have been between 1100 and 1130 as many of the boys were outside having their break and two of the survivors I spoke to recall drinking their milk in their classroom at the time and the headmaster reading one of the broadsheets. Would that be consistant with your times?

If this does indeed put Oblt Faulhaber and Lt Gerhard Lucke in the frame, how can I dig a bit deeper? What became of them? I'm afraid I'm an absolute novice at this and am learning as I'm doing it!

Many thanks

Nick