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Re: 4/KG40, 4th January 1943
Found this on Wikipedia:
The E-1 aircraft could carry an internal bomb load of 2,000 kg. Alternatively, it could carry a load of two LMW aerial mines or one torpedo. The E-2 could carry three mines.
The version that crashed at Fairlight was an E-4, which had the same bomb load as the E-2.
So the Fairlight Dornier was carrying 3 mines on board. One was defused at the crash site. So, either the other 2 exploded in the crash, or, 2 mines had already been dropped in Rye Bay before the aircraft crashed?
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