[Brian Bines]

Dave,

Slightly off your subject but the book ''So, We Bombed Moscow Alone'' describes how in a raid on London in 1944 the He 177 of Corporal Pomber (Fw. Franz Pomper missing 25/26-4-1944 ?) was attacked by a Nightfighter. During violent evasive flying the cases of champagne carried in the upper gunner's position went pop, the drink was being carried as the aircraft took off from Chateaudun to attack London and after land at Rheine. The He 177 shot down at Lamberhurst Kent on 24/25-2-1944 was reported to have carried a roll of silk.
I vaugely remember a television report in the 1950's of a Luftwaffe bomber being lifted from a lake in Germany/Switzerland ? it was reported to have been shot down late in the war. As I remember it was hoped to find gold, a photo of a crewman recovered in a wallet was shown in the report. Possibly the aircraft was twin-finned my memory is not that good, anyone got an i.d. on this one,

Regards

Brian Bines