Dornier 17Z shot down 4th July 1940

[Larry Hickey]

Hello,

Peter Cornwell is getting ready to go on vacation, so I don't know if he will have time to respond to this from the revised EOE Data Base:

"July 3, 1940: 8./KG77 Dornier Do17Z-3 (2642). Riddled in attacks by P/O P.M. Gardner, Sgt E.A. Bayley, and Sgt W.B. Higgins of No. 32 Squadron after bombing Kenley and crash-landed in hop-garden at Baybrooks, Horsmonden, 4.55 p.m. BF Obergefr Erich Hoffmann and BM Uffz Waldemar Theilig both killed, BO Oberlt Hans-Georg Gallion and FF Uffz Richard Brandes both captured badly wounded. Aircraft 3Z+GS 100% write-off."

As an added note: the unit insignia from one side of the a/c exists today in a collection in Britain.

If anyone has the first names of the three British pilots mentioned, I would appreciate having these.

Regards,

[Clint Mitchell]

Thanks to you and Peter for the additional info Larry. Might the surviving emblem you mention be this one discussed on LEMB here?