Dornier 217 bombs miss Ewell East Station Our family returned to England from Holland a few months before the outbreak of war on 3rd September 1939. Because our wireless was out of action we ...

When Italy surrendered to the Allies, Germany sent a brutal message. Armed with history’s first precision-guided bombs, the ...

The Tower Bridge is visible near the plane's left wingtip. Two German Dornier 217 planes pass over the burning bombing targets of the Breckton Gas Works at Silvertown, a suburb in southeast of ...

About 50 of them are here retrieving the remains of a German bomber - the dreaded Dornier 217.ZA. Some 1,700 were built, but none remains intact to this day. This particular salvage operation is ...

More than 1,500 Dornier 17 bombers were built, though by the middle of 1940 production had switched to the newer Do-217 that carried a larger bomb load and had a greater range. The glass canopy ...

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It was black, with big black and white crosses on it. A Dornier 217. Dornier DO 217 It flew slowly over us in a northerly direction towards London. Then we saw its bomb doors open and counted five ...