Dornier 17s on Patrol in Poland. Bundesarchiv, Bild. Spieth. Summer 1940.
Chalk this one up to amazing finds. Literally.
“At 1142 hours, 264 Squadron was ordered to take off and patrol Dover, to intercept enemy bombers.”
The report neatly summarizes the encounter, listing six enemy Dornier 17 bombers and one Me-109 fighter destroyed, to three Defiants lost on the British side. The details state that one Do-17 was “…damaged. Broke formation—smoking from both engines.” It is believed that this is the airplane that made a forced landing in an area of the English Channel called Goodwin Sands at low tide, shortly before 2 p.m. that afternoon. Read the original combat report.
A sonar side-scan image of a Dornier 17 that has been on the bottom of the English Channel for 70 years. Courtesy: RAF Museum.Read the rest of the article on the EAA Website.
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