Hello Everyone, I am trying to find out more about a Junkers that crashed at Combe Hill, near Hungerford, in Berkshire. My mum remembers them having the controls out of it as she was only 8 at the time. How would i find out more information about it? as far as i can see on the internet, there is just a very small paragraph mentioning it. I think the date was about November 1943. My Grandad was in the Home Guard and had to take buckets of sand up the hill because of ammunition apparently, How do i find out about him? would it be the closest large town? as Combe was a very small village. ta
Hi, The County record office should have records of this incident. Berkshire Record Office • Whats New? Sniper
Hi, Try the local library most will have maps of bombs dropped and aircraft crash sites.... Cheers Tom
Hi This (according to The Blitz - Then and Now) was probably a Junkers Ju 188E-1 of Erpr/KG6, coded 3E+AF. Shot down by Flt. Lt. S.F. Hodsman and W.O. A.F. Monger in a Mosquito of 29 Squadron. Crashed at Walbury Hill, Combe at 6.20pm on night 1 November 1943. Oblt. Schmid, Obfeld. Krupp, St. Fw. Zuch and Uffz. Koidl all killed. See also Ramsbury at War Regards, Graeme
Thank you very much for your help. This is the one. Now to find out about my Grandad who was in the home guard. my mum was very very young at the time, they had something out of the crashed plane that they used to play with, pretending to fly!!!
Hi I went to the site in 76 with my dad and his friend Tom who lived there since he was.a.kid He had a metal detector and we dug up countless rounds of small ammunition i had a go and found the canopy handle still with a bit of perspex on it. Tom went to the site when it happened and took home a.large reem of cannon shell. The police.came round that evening and took them someone grasses him up. When you looked down from coombe gibbet and to the left half way down the hill back then, there was an oak tree with a very flat top.This was.The 188's first contact. Went there about 10 yr ago and the trees gone and the chunk out of the Ridgeway where it finally rested is filled in.
Wow. Thank you so much for this info. I would have been in the village when you visited in 76 as j lived in Combe!
