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7th September 2023, 19:29
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British war crimes involving Luftwaffe aircrew 31 August 1940
Hi guys
Endeavouring to clarify a couple of unsavory incidents that may have occurred on 31 August 1940, reference Richard Collier's 1966 "Eagle Day". Page 199: (a) At Tandridge in Surrey, blood-crazed troops did a tribal dance round a hayrick, parading a German's head on a pitchfork (b) LDV volunteer Richard May, hastening towards Coulsdon Golf Course where a German had baled out, met two soldiers who'd got there first. One of them, carrying a pilot's gauntlet glove, announced tersely "We've fixed him." In the field, May found a tall man wearing the Iron Cross, his head smashed to a pulp." Were these reports factual? Were there other such incidents? Cheers Brian 
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