[biddendenlocal]

Hello,
The only detail I have is that the crash possition is Lat.51.74 Long 0.39.2. This I obtained from Google Earth image. Nothing has changed in the 67 years since I visited the site,a few days after the crash,as a 10yo ,evacue .Still the same open field,very close to the road.
I live in Australia,but in my quest for answers I contacted Biddenden,and now correspond with the boy in whose family I lived with in 1940/41 .He,s 78 and remembers the crash,his Brother-in-law remembers the crash,but so far,we cannot put a date to it.
My memory says it happened before 23rd August 1940.This is because Kent History Centre say school holidays began that day,and I think that it happened on a school day after school,at about 4.30 in the afternoon.At the time I was billited South of the village.
The sky was clear,and there did,nt seem to be much air activity.My attention was drawn skywards,by the sound of one short burst of machine gun fire.High in the sky were two dots,...one of the dots became what I have always believed to be a Spitfire. It never deviated,and crashed at high speed . I never saw a parashute.I was 1800yds away in Biddenden Village.
On visiting the site,after it was cleared of debris,it was said that very little remained of the pilot,and I doubt if they dug anymore of the plane at the time,for the engine would have been a long way down.
My contact in Biddenden is related to the person who was the local policeman in 1940,and he told them that he recovered human remains from air crashes,and took them home for safe keeping,until collected by the authorities. My contact believes he was refering to this particular crash,but there were other crashes near Biddenden,although none of the crashes I have seen reported say the pilot died in the planecrash.
The only other clue,suggested by a Biddenden resident,was that he thought it was a plane from Hornchurch,with a pilot Mac?sombody!
Nobody can help without a date!!! I did,nt keep a diary in 1940/41