"German bomber raised from English Channel" Topic
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79thPA  | 17 Jan 2014 8:58 a.m. PST |
A Do 17 pulled out of the drink: link |
| MajorB | 17 Jan 2014 9:26 a.m. PST |
Lifted in June 2013 and now at RAF Cosford undergoing conservation – being sprayed 3 times an hour with lemon juice!
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| Tin hat | 17 Jan 2014 9:26 a.m. PST |
I've actually been to see it at RAF Cosford. Not a great deal to see as yet just a load of rust & barnacles in two poly tents. |
| 79thPA | 17 Jan 2014 9:39 a.m. PST |
Ahhh … I thought it was recent news. My bad. |
| David Manley | 17 Jan 2014 10:10 a.m. PST |
It is worth going for a look, if only to chat to the team who are doing the restoration :) |
| D for Dubious | 20 Jan 2014 8:07 a.m. PST |
According to the BBC shot down by a Defiant. |
| Lion in the Stars | 21 Jan 2014 2:03 p.m. PST |
A Defiant actually got a kill?!? Well, then again, B25s have a few air-to-air kills, so maybe it's not completely absurd… |
| DBS303 | 22 Jan 2014 8:06 a.m. PST |
Bear in mind that, notwithstanding the title of this thread, the Dogger Bank is quite a way up from the English Channel, in the North Sea proper, beyond the range of Bf109s. So actually the sort of area where a Defiant could actually operate as designed, ie as an interceptor that does not need to fight for air superiority. There were also a few night kills, despite the obvious drawbacks of the Defiant as a night-fighter compared to something like the Beau. |
| D for Dubious | 23 Jan 2014 4:02 a.m. PST |
The Defiant was definitely technological step in the wrong direction but the RAF could have got better use out of them than it did. If they'd kept them out of the small corner of the south east that the 109s had the legs to reach then they were a useful bomber destroyer. |
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