 The tail of a shot down Dornier Do.17 fell on the roof of a house in London.  The rest of the German aircraft fell in a different area of ​​the city, near London Victoria Station. 


London  21/09/1940 

British 94-mm anti-aircraft guns QF 3.7 inch AA gun in training  against air raids in London's Hyde Park ,1939
I wonder what the bystanders are looking at.Did the soldiers actually fire the guns(onlookers watching the 94mm explode) or did they just go through the motions and dry fire? 

Training

German fighter Messerschmitt Bf.109E (No. 1985)  of Lt. Heinz Schnabel (Heinz Schnabel) 1./JG3  shot down by British fighters and made an emergency landing,September 3, 1940. 

The pilot was taken prisoner and held in the English POW camp number 15 in the village of Shap (England), in the former hotel. 
On November 24, 1941 Lt. Heinz Schnabel with another prisoner of war Harry Vapplerom (pilot of a Heinkel He-111 bomber from KG27) made one of the most audacious escapes in the history of the Second World War. Using deception upon entering the RAF airfield Kingstown, with ground equipment ,they managed to get off the ground in a English  Miles Magister training aircraft. After refueling on  another RAF airfield , the German pilots planned on flying to Holland, but flew only to the English town of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, where they were caught and sent to the airfield RAF Horsham St.Faith. They were then sent back to  camp in Shap, where they were punished with a 28-day stay in solitary confinement. 
greetz,brummbar

