THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN - A Messerschmitt Bf109 on display to the public at Fairfield car park in Croydon, August 1940. This aircraft was a Bf 109E-1 ( 6296F) flown by Oberleutnant Bartels, Technical Officer of Stab. III/ JG 26, and shot down by Spitfires on 24 July 1940. It crash-landed at Northdown in Kent, beside the Margate to Broadstairs railway line. ,

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