Hurricane Loss - 29 October 1940, Wallington, Hants

[Andy Saunders]

Peter

Thank you for that.

I am grateful for the updated information.

McKee talks about this aircraft having been engaged in an aerial fight over the district and saw two Me109s on the tail of a Hurricane - he believes this one.

"A single machine, a Hurricane by the look of it, was diving slowly from 15,000 to 10,000ft. Two deadly shapes came up behind. Like wolves to the kill. There was a chatter of gunfire as the tiny formation opened up; then the superior speed of the Messerschmitts had taken them past. Still the dogfight raged, with unattached machines wandering about as if lost. The Hurricane slowly lost height over Fareham......sure enough, a Hurricane was slowly sliding down behind the trees at the end of Down End Road. He lost height at a very flat angle and took some time to disappear, but he was down right enough"

McKee later found the Hurricane in a ploughed field at Wallington.