An RAF officer inspects a Messerschmitt Bf109E-1 (W.Nr. 6296F) which crash-landed at Northdown in Kent, beside the Margate to Broadstairs railway line, having been shot down by Spitfires on 24 July 1940. It was flown by Oberleutnant Bartels, Technical Officer of Stab. III/ JG 26, who was injured in the crash. It was then put on display to the public at Fairfield car park in Croydon, August 1940.
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