Author Topic: Who shotdown Bader? Ch4 7pm (Read 265 times)

thrila · « **on:** August 28, 2006, 11:02:22 AM »

Hey all ukers thought i would give you a heads up for tonight. There is a documentry about what happened to Douglas Bader on the August 9 1941. I've read an article by the same historian Andy Saunders a couple of years ago. It's very interesting and comes to a conclusion different to the collision that Bader thought it was.

SteffK · « **Reply #1 on:** August 28, 2006, 11:20:46 AM »

Will be watching that one

Trikky · « **Reply #2 on:** August 28, 2006, 01:21:00 PM »

Cheers, would have missed this without the post. Quote so far - 'Not many artificial legs would have dropped from the sky in northern France'.

Frodo · « **Reply #3 on:** August 28, 2006, 02:46:48 PM »

For us not in the U.K., what conclusion did it come to?

Thanks

Frodo

thrila · « **Reply #4 on:** August 28, 2006, 03:03:05 PM »

In the end it is believed that Bader was shotdown by 'Buck' Casson in a friendly fire incident. Casson was a member of 616 squadron, the same as Bader.

The article I first read about the incident is from "After the battle" Issue 125.

Frodo · « **Reply #5 on:** August 28, 2006, 03:28:43 PM »

Thanks Thrila!

Frodo