The photograph of a Junkers Ju 88 crash near Horsham Q Tony Turner sends a photograph of a Junkers Ju 88 forced down three miles south of Horsham, Sussex, on farmland near Monks Gate. An eyewitness saw four crew getting out, and Mr Turner asks for details.

A Assuming this was a Battle of Britain casualty, I ploughed through After the Battle’s The Battle of Britain, Then and Now and the probability is Ju 88A-1 WNr 0274, code 4D+AA of Stab KG30, shot down by Spitfires of No 66 Sqn during a raid on the London docks. It forced-landed in Church Field, Newells Farm, Nuthurst, near Horsham, on September 9, 1940. The crew, comprising Oblt Heil, Uffzs Beck and Paustian and Fw Fuss were captured.