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LUFTWAFFE
BOMBERS
IN THE BLITZ
Andy Saunders
Images of War
First published in Great Britain in 2015 by
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EN
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WORD
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ILITARY
an imprint of
Pen & Sword Books Ltd,
47 Church Street,
Barnsley,
South Yorkshire,
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Copyright © Andy Saunders, 2015
ISBN 978 1 78303 0 224
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Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 – London’s Burning!
Chapter 2 – Not All Returned
Chapter 3 – New Year, Same Story
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Acknowledgements
The photographs contained in this volume are largely from my private archive of
images that I have collected of Luftwaffe aircraft downed in Britain during the
period 1939 to 1945. A great many friends and colleagues have assisted me in the
quest for these photographs, or otherwise provided additional information. In no
particular order of merit, I would like to thank:
Peter Cornwell, Steve Hall, Chris Goss, Dennis Knight, Winston Ramsey, Phillipa
Hodgkiss, Alfred Price and Martin Mace.
In addition, I must mention two other fellow researchers who are no longer with
us but who’s work added considerably to our sum of knowledge relating to the
recovery of aircraft wrecks in wartime Britain. They are my late friend Pat Burgess
and a colleague of many years, Peter Foote. Pat had been a prodigious collector of
information relating to the county of Sussex, the area in which much of the activity
described in this book had taken place. Peter Foote had been equally industrious in
recording the minutiae of events during the Battle of Britain and the Blitz across
Britain since the late 1940s and his tireless research work has left a legacy of
unequalled information. Had he not recorded some of these events before it was
too late to find the evidence then our knowledge of that period would be much the
poorer. In many cases, he put considerable historical detail and context to
photographs that would otherwise have been a rather less informative record of
the momentous events they depicted.
Lastly, I feel I should mention the late Kenneth Watkins. Ken was a collector of
Luftwaffe aircraft crash photographs and after his death I was fortunate to be able
to acquire his large collection. Ken’s photographs complemented and added to
those already in my own archive but I was able to extensively draw upon that
resource in compiling this book.
In addition, I must extend my thanks to any other individuals and organisations
who may have assisted me in over forty years of research and whom I may have
inadvertently overlooked. My thanks to you all.
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