This is an entry in a year-long project to post-blog the demobilisation experience for British servicemen at the end of the Second World War. See here for an introduction to the project and here for a brief overview of the demobilisation process.
A complaint about persistent low flying from a Times reader in Lymington: "Yesterday a C-47 was at not more than 300ft - last week three flights of Spitfires dived on this house from about 7,000 ft, and roared past at under 200ft ... a month ago a Spitfire crashed in the garden in a vertical power-dive, missing the house by 40ft. The greater part of the wreck and all the engine have been abandoned in a large crater that has not been filled up."
A Spitfire (or Merlin) in the garden? It sounds vaguely like an urban myth, but it would make great poetry, too. "An English country garden" with a browned, ancient Merlin overgrown by something ....English country garden-y.
Posted by: Erik Lund | Saturday, 11 July 2009 at 03:10 PM