He-111 H-6 (7492), 7/ KG 53 crashed on 9-8-1942 to Worthing.

[everard]

Chris,

thanks for your replay.

do you know who thos 3 men where who were killed?
And do you have more information about those 5 injurede men?
Where did you found this?

Regards,
Everard

[Jon]

Hi Everard.

The Blitz Then and Now definately states that it was shot down by both heavy and light British AA. As Heavy AA could only really engage aircraft at a height i have put two and two together and hopefully come up with four!
There were many instances in the war on both sides of the channel of bombers being damaged, loosing height and then falling to the lighter faster firing and more accurate light AA.
I new an old RAF airgunner back in the early 1980's, he was in a Wellington damaged by Flack over Germany and forced to loose height due to a damaged engine. He said that the bad part of the whole flight was at about 6,000ft they came into range of the "light stuff" and they actually got hit the worst when crossing over a British warship at dock on the South East coast. He said the Royal Navy were rubbish shots apart from that night when everything their British collegues shot at them hit them !!
Why the interest in this one Heinkel ?
Jon

[Chris Goss]

I do not have the names of those killed or injured-you might get the names of those killed from the CWGC site.

[everard]

Jon,

The reason of my interest?
This HE-111 got a hit from a airgunner above Selsey Bill a few minutes
before he crashed into Worthing.

After the shots of the airgunner, the HE-111 got a hit from AA.

Everard