Reculver Towers – Dambusters – Amy Johnson

Took a great walk along the coast this week near to my UK home. I went past Reculver Towers where the Dambusters practiced their bomb runs with Barnes Wallis and his team watching and aiming to refine their weapon. My Grandfather guarded the cliffs during the trials as naturally they were sealed off….he came close to being killed by a German parachute mine that went off near him. But that is another story. The bombs lay on the sea bed for years and were eventually recovered and are now displayed.  the sea behind the towers is where Richard Hillary was shot down during the Battle of Britain and also is the final resting place for Amy Johnson who disappeared in bad weather over it…whilst ferrying an aircraft in 1941 if my memory serves me right! I will post more pics soon.

Dambusters test footage at Reculver here – http://www.thedambusters.org.uk/60feet.html

The wall of the Roman Fort at Reculver with ww2 tank traps in the background (called dragons teeth)

Reculver Towers2000 years of history.

WW1 Memorials Munich

ww1 memorials in Munich

The infantry school where Hitler was tried after the 1923 putch

This is the building in Blutenburg Strasse where Hitler and his co-defendants were tried in 1924 for their participation in the Beer hall putch. They were initially supposed to be tried in the main in Berlin but too many prominent members of Munich society were implicated ….so conveniently the trail was tucked away in this infantry school in Munich along with a sympathetic judge.