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While listening to Pat Kenny yesterday a gentleman was discussing the Deprt of foreign Affairs documents for 1940 to 1945. He said in reply to Kenny that two RAF and one German airplanes were shot down. Were these by the Ack Ack boys and if so where? Anybody know?
Cheers
be specific..where were they alleged to be shot down given the only fixed AD was in the Dublen area and we didn't have anything capable of interception until we acquired huurricanes of which there is no record of them engaging with aircrat breaching our neutrality.
The only aircraft shot down over Ireland were by the RAF
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Had a listen to the interiew on playback, the person said that the German airplane was by the units at Rosslare and the RAF were at Malin Head.
I have checked the website listed by concussion but I cannot see anything that fits these shootings as claimed
Cheers for the assistance.
I seem to remember reading in one of McCarrons books that a German aircraft was downed in Wexford by AA mounted Vickers MG's after ignoring warning flares.
Tony Kearns is the expert in this area. From memory ,he would dispute some of McCarron's facts.
the opnly record mentioned in McCarrons book 'Landfall Ireland is of a Bv138 flying boat which after the crew being interned was sunk by gun fire by the Fort Rannoch off Inisvickallaune in November 1940.
there were 'dogfights' between the RAF and Luftwaffe over wexford on several occassions with some aircraft either crashing off the coast or on land.
One one occassion however a heinkel did crash land near Rosslare and despite the explosive device fitted for destruction failing to ignite the crew dismounted a machine gun and fired at it for ten minutes despite the Gardai protest...until a hung bob was hit by a round and the whole thing went up.
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