Luftwaffe Bombers in the Blitz 1940-1941 (Images of War).pdf

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Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 – London’s Burning!
Chapter 2 – Not All Returned
Chapter 3 – New Year, Same Story
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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