VVObdL Ju88T remains from the Thames Estuary...

[Chris Going]

If everyone else missed this, my apologies. In the summer of 2012 dredging in the UK Thames Estuary recovered from a single location 300+ fragments from an aircraft including a BMW 801 powerplant, VDM propeller, and debris including Nitrous Oxide boost controls, fragments of a FuG 25, and an aerial camera plate. These strongly suggest this is remains of a VVObdL Ju 88T T9+FH 0678 shot down during a sortie to photograph the Marconi works at Chelmsford on April 20th 1943. Interestingly a second VDM propellor, from a different a/c, was also recovered.

A little about this is now published in Gane, T., and Scott, G., 2014 'Archaeology from the Sky, The Air War Over the Thames Estuary'. DP World, London Gateway, Wessex Archaeology (ISBN 978-1-874350-78-1). A pdf can be found on the www.londongateway.com website.

Best, Chris.