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From: "La Greenall" <>
Subject: RE: Airship L33's confiscated machine gun - where can it be?
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 22:57:45 -0000
In-Reply-To: <000c01c6455e$6c7977a0$31cf0150@Vaio>


Just a thought: how close is the jam factory to the coast? Maybe they
missed when they threw it out - but then again, as bombers they
shouldn't have done! They probably knew that things were going to get a
bit sticky.

Lawrence.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Colleen [mailto:]
> Sent: 11 March 2006 22:52
> To: La Greenall;
> Subject: Re: Airship L33's confiscated machine gun - where can it be?
>
>
> Good point, Lawrence! That doesn't make sense, does it? I
> imagine the crew
> knew that the L33 was done for once she caught fire. Hence
> the apparent
> attempt to ditch her in the Ray Channel - presumably to stop
> the British
> capturing the airship.
>
> Perhaps the log book was ditched in the hope that it wouldn't
> fall into the
> hands of the Brits. The book contained a lot of sensitive
> information,
> including a list of bomb targets - the owner of the jam
> factory photographed
> that page before the military confiscated the book.
>
> Colleen
>
> held
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "La Greenall" <>
> To: "'Colleen'" <>;
> <>
> Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 10:34 PM
> Subject: RE: [Ess] Airship L33's confiscated machine gun -
> where can it be?
>
>
> > Sorry Colleen, I can't help with this one, but I cannot
> help wondering
> > why the logbook was thrown out to help lighten the load -
> was it very
> > big? (vbg)
> >
> > Have you tried the local newspapers of the time? Censorship
> back then
> > would have been primitive compared to WW2 coverage.
> >
> > Regards, Lawrence.
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Colleen [mailto:]
> >> Sent: 11 March 2006 19:51
> >> To:
> >> Subject: [Ess] Airship L33's confiscated machine gun - where
> >> can it be?
> >>
> >>
> >> Prior to crashing, its believed that the crew attempted to
> >> ditch the burning
> >> airship in the Ray channel, but they were blown back inland.
> >> For a time they
> >> hovered above Tiptree and jettisoned some of the contents of
> >> the airship in
> >> an attempt to gain height. One machine gun, the airship's
> >> part burnt log
> >> book and some pieces of the ship were thrown out and crashed
> >> through the
> >> roof of the Wilkins Jam factory.
> >>
> >> The gun and log book were collected from the jam factory by
> >> the military,
> >> who promised that these, or at least the gun would be
> >> returned after the
> >> war. 90 years on, the Wilkins family are still waiting for
> >> their return.
> >>
> >> I wonder what happened to these items? Would they still be
> >> around, gathering
> >> dust in storage somewhere, do you think?
> >>
> >> Colleen
> >>
> >>
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