And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Sunday, April 16, 2017
Londoners gather around a Messerschmitt bomber shot down during the Blitz, 1940
Pretty good landing for being shot down. Not sure what's to the left of the picture, but if he put it down coming down that street, that took some skills.
Me-110?
ReplyDeleteSure looks like one.
Deleteyes.
DeleteLooks like they caught it with a net.
ReplyDeletePretty good landing for being shot down. Not sure what's to the left of the picture, but if he put it down coming down that street, that took some skills.
ReplyDeleteDidn't they hang nets from barrage balloons?
ReplyDeleteDid some poking around with Tineye. Found this---
ReplyDeletehttp://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/world-war-ii-10th-october-1940-london-england-a-news-photo/79665816?#world-war-ii-10th-october-1940-london-england-a-messerschmidt-110-picture-id79665816
...and this---
https://www.google.com/search?q=me+110+shot+down+in+england&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiqwYWe0azTAhXsylQKHb-9C2MQsAQIUg&biw=1152&bih=605&dpr=1.25#imgrc=d11J676sja0MtM:&spf=213
Scroll down on this forum for larger versions of both photos---
http://www.mission4today.com/index.php?name=ForumsPro&file=viewtopic&p=146941
I rather doubt that this is where the 110 come down.