Wreckage

Soldiers retrieving part of the tail section belonging to a Messerschmitt Bf.110C-4 3M+EL (Wk.Nº 3113) of 3./ZG2 shot down on Tuesday 3rd. Sept. 1940. Both crew baled out, survived and were taken prisoner. It was shot down possibly by F/O Count M.B.Czernin of 17 Squadron, Debden (Hurricanes) and crashed at Canewden in Essex.  650 German aircraft attacked London and Kent that day and 42 were destroyed for the loss of 13 RAF planes.  (Colorised by Vitaly Lopatin from Russia). Found here.