[Brighton] Old Brighton Postcard

[Is it PotG?]

Messerschmitt Me 410 crash, St. Nicholas Churchyard, Brighton, April 1944

 

[Weststander]

Messerschmitt Me 410 crash, St. Nicholas Churchyard, Brighton, April 1944

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Interesting that a fighter was over the UK at that time. I had thought that overwhelmed by the RAF/USAF, the Nazis were fighting a defensive air war over the continent, as well as the V weopons.

 

[rippleman]

Interesting that a fighter was over the UK at that time. I had thought that overwhelmed by the RAF/USAF, the Nazis were fighting a defensive air war over the continent, as well as the V weopons.

It was a fighter-bomber, part of a renewed "blitzkreig" attack as one of Hitler's "last throw of the dice".

Here is some more interesting information about the attack and the pilot.

Richard Pahl and the Baby Blitz

TUESDAY APRIL 19 1944 THE last attack of the Baby Blitz, a renewed offensive against London in the spring of 1944, occurred on this particular night. Taking part was twenty four year old Oberleutna…

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