My father recounts a story of him seeing a german bomber as a boy in a very small place called Benloit in the Scottish Highlands next to the town of Drumnadrochit near the banks of Loch Ness.
His school, which was basicly a small cottage with one clasroom, sits overlooking Loch Noss. He says one day the air raid siren went off and they were evacuated out into the grounds which were at that time, and now, just a field on a hill overlooking the loch. He said the bomber flew low over the loch where it eventualy bombed an alunminium factory at Foyers. The aluminium was being used to help sustain the war production and metal was very precious to the war effort.
Even now you can walk round the streets of Inverness (nearest large town) and most of the old houses have a small wall seperating the garden from the pavement. On top of the walls you can see there were once railings which were cut off and taken away to be re-smelted.
The only other part of the story my father tells is that the german plane had flown all that way, then was shot down near Aberdeen which is the last city before the safety of the North Sea. When her recounts this I can tell he feels sympathy for the crew. I dont know if there was any survivors or what plane type it was, but it would be most interesting to know.
I recently found this via t'internet which recounts the same story.
http://www.ww2inthehighlands.co.uk/folders/memiors/foyerschildhood.htm
His school, which was basicly a small cottage with one clasroom, sits overlooking Loch Noss. He says one day the air raid siren went off and they were evacuated out into the grounds which were at that time, and now, just a field on a hill overlooking the loch. He said the bomber flew low over the loch where it eventualy bombed an alunminium factory at Foyers. The aluminium was being used to help sustain the war production and metal was very precious to the war effort.
Even now you can walk round the streets of Inverness (nearest large town) and most of the old houses have a small wall seperating the garden from the pavement. On top of the walls you can see there were once railings which were cut off and taken away to be re-smelted.
The only other part of the story my father tells is that the german plane had flown all that way, then was shot down near Aberdeen which is the last city before the safety of the North Sea. When her recounts this I can tell he feels sympathy for the crew. I dont know if there was any survivors or what plane type it was, but it would be most interesting to know.
I recently found this via t'internet which recounts the same story.
http://www.ww2inthehighlands.co.uk/folders/memiors/foyerschildhood.htm
