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6th January 2008, 15:48
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Re: Bf109 loss 7th January 1942
This was the first recon 109 downed in the UK and (I think) the site was excavated by Phillipa Hotchkiss in the ?1980s. I gather the pilot visited the site at that time or soon after. Interestingly, Thune's film was retrieved from his camera, and developed at RAF Medmenham. The camera was left on after he suffered the engine failure, and in a rather graphic if pointless graph, Medmenham plotted his slow loss of height, pitch and yaw etc until the film ran out. There's a file on this (with pointless graph) in the PRO (UK National Archives), in Air 34 I think, though I cannot rremember the reference now, which is annoying. There has been some stuff on this loss before, which might be trawled up from the archive deep...
Best Chris Going 
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