discussion Battle of Graveney Marsh.

[stona]

As above,with some good piccies if you want to do a crashed Ju88.

Battle of Graveney Marsh conflict finally commemorated | Mail Online

Cheers

Steve

 

[Guest]

What an interesting story. Thanks for the link, I enjoyed reading that. You are quite right an excellent diorama potential there, especially with a few army figures around the plane.

 

[Guest]

Very interesting read and so British to have a pint with the Germans before they were taken away.

What I also found strange were some of the comments below the article. In the article it claimed that this was the last battle fought on British soil by an invading army. Some claim that as Ulster is part of the UK (don't get me started on that subject) then that was the last battle (who was the invading army? Surely that would be the British as Ulster should belong to Ireland. The other was the claim that the the last battle fought on British soil was the Iranian Embassy. Under international law, as I understand it, the Iranian Embassy is Iranian, not British.

Again, subject to national beliefs, wasn't the the last battle fought on (technically) British soil against an invading army the Falklands?

Please correct me if I am wrong, as you know, I usually am lol

 

[stona]

I've no idea Graham. I think I'll stick with Culloden as the last real battle fought on British soil,taking that to mean in Britain.

I don't think a brief fire fight with some downed airmen counts as a battle with an invading army anyway. What on earth were the Germans doing? Maybe they were just trying to buy time whilst they set their demolition charge. They can hardly have hoped to escape.

As a serious aside I think British forces were aware that the German airmen would attempt to destroy their aircraft and acted accordingly. The first Bf109F to fall intact into our hands only did so because its pilot,Rolf Pingel, was dissuaded from continuing his demolition efforts by a few shots over his head.

Cheers

Steve