Re: 1940 AIR RAID OVER SCARBOROUGH NORTH YORKSHIRE
hi,ROB ,I THINK STAVENGER,,BUT NOT SURE THE HE115S WERE THE MOST LIKLY CANIDATE,AS THE HEINKELS 111S WERE MORE OF A LESS CARRY AS THE BOMBS WERE UP RIGHT,AS THE HE115S WERE UNDER THE FUSERLARGE.,THEY COULD LAND ON WATER AND WAIT,IE CONVOYS.FOR HOURS,,THEN TAKE OFF,TO DUMP THEM,NEAR BY, COAST,BUT AS ITS NOT MY FIELD , ITS WHAT I READ, THAT COUNTS, MOSTLY BOOKS,I HAD, THERE WAS ALSO HE 59S THEY TOO WERE ON SERVICE TOO BUT NOT MANY,THEY WERE USED BY RESCUE ,SERVICES,ALSO MINING THE SEAS,
SEVERAL WERE SHOT DOWN BY OUR RAF BOYS" WITH RED CROSSES ON,
IT CAUSED OUT RAGE IN JULY,AS THEY WERE NOTICABLE ,THEY WERE MARKED BY RED CROSSES.,AND FLEW BY COASTS NOT FEARIN ANY ATTACKS BY US, BUT ONE WAS SHOT DOWN, BY SPITS,WHO THOUGHT THEY WERE ON SPY SHIPIN MISSIONS BUT AS THE CREW WERE UNDER STRICT ORDERS NOT TO DISCUSE THE WAR,TO THERE,SIDES WHEN THEY GOT BACK CODE OF SILENCE,ONLY RESCUE WORK NOT SPYING,
HOPE THIS IS OK.
GARY.
Last edited by dora9forever; 18th June 2007 at 20:59.
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