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A trusted tradeswoman with sensible rates covering Southampton, New Forest & Waterside areas CONTACT HANNAH 07585 778136 W: www.hannahs-electrics.co.uk • E: hannahelectrics@gmail.com Like us on Facebook Tales from the Graveyard of All Saints’ Churchyard, Fawley subsequently engaged it, receiving light return re and they attacked. Sanders later reported that the strikes on the Junkers cockpit area were followed by ames. However Sander’s guns then jammed, and the attack was taken over by Don Dodd and he raked the bomber with canon re. Witnesses watched the Junkers come down but it appeared to be under control and it seemed to be attempting to land in a eld south of Exbury House. e aeroplane skidded along the ground in a part of the Exbury estate known as ‘ e Park’, but it came to an abrupt halt when it encountered a shallow pond which was situated in a far corner of the eld. As it crashed into the pond the aircra ’s two engines broke loose from the wings, there was an explosion and the aircra caught re. e time was approximately 07:35 hours. Two of the Junkers crew were thrown from the aircra and were found to be still alive, but sadly they died from their injuries later. e ve other crew members were found to be dead. To this day there have been many, many theories aired about what the aircra ’s intentions really were. Was it a case of a simple navigational error? Were the crew so dis-orientated that they did not even realise they were over the English Channel and heading towards one of the most heavily defended parts of Britain? Why was the Junkers carrying a crew of seven when the normal crew of a Junkers 188 was four or ve? Were they trying to surrender? Many books have been written on what has become known as the ‘Exbury Junkers’. A particularly in depth investigation was made by John Stanley in his excellent book ‘ e Exbury Junkers’ A World War 11 Mystery. Whatever the case, at around 07:35 hours on the 18th April 1944 seven young German men died: Untero zier Johann (Hans) Czipin aged 21 was the JU 188 pilot. Untero zier Johann Krause aged 23 was the JU 188 observer. In the early morning rain, on Tuesday the 18th April 1944, seven young German men boarded their Junkers 188 bomber aircra with orders to leave their base at Avord in central France and y to an advance air eld at Soesterberg in Holland to prepare for a bombing raid on England. As the aircra took o into driving rain things appear to have gone wrong. It seems the crew were not aware of the fact that instead of heading in a north-northeasterly direction they were in fact ying on a northwesterly course and by approximately 07:00 hours, the Junkers had reached the Isle of Wight. e crew must have realised that something had gone seriously wrong with their navigation as the weather had cleared, and it must have been obvious that they were over water. Whatever had gone wrong was to have disastrous consequences for the young crew. e weather along the Hampshire coast was ne, a lovely spring day was developing, and all along the south coast of England preparations were being made for Operation Overlord, an operation that was to become known as D-Day. is operation was only six or seven weeks away, so when an enemy aircra appeared overhead it was assumed that it was on a spying mission. As the aircra meandered its way across the Isle of Wight towards the mainland it was being red on by various anti-aircra units. e Junkers eventually crossed the coast near to the mouth of the Beaulieu River, then ew eastwards and over HMS Mastodon, (Exbury House) where the A Special ‘Tale’ by Patricia Hedley- Goddard planning of Operation Overlord was in full swing. e aircra then headed westwards and circled over the RAF station at Calshot, and again turned and headed westwards. At the same time, Hawker Typhoons were returning from an exercise to their base at Needs Oar Point air eld on the edge of the New Forest. Heavy antiaircra re was observed by the ight commander and he ordered his ight to set o to investigate. F/Lt Sanders and Flight Sergeant Donovan Dodd quickly identi ed the aircra as being an enemy Junkers 188 and Exbury Junkers 188 Continued on page 19
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