My town Tramore is situated in a calm and quiet corner

WW2 Documentary My town Tramore is situated in a calm and quiet corner of Ireland and amid WW2 was not enormously influenced by what was going ahead in whatever remains of the world. Individuals knew about the war and nourishment was apportioned yet life proceeded with unaffected.

On Sunday morning 23rd of August 1942 things were to get a great deal distinctive, the same number of townsfolk advanced toward 10am mass at the nearby church they heard uproarious commotion from a German flying machine being pursued by two British firecrackers. Nearby individuals needed to jump to security as slugs down-poured down in the city as the Junker diminished elevation drastically and experienced harsh criticism.

The German plane a Junkers 88 taking flame from the British firecrackers power arrived in a field close Carriglong. The activity seen over Tramore Bay, St Otterans Terrace and the Racecourse was a piece of a progression of much bigger occasions that began numerous hours before.

In a little landing strip outside of Paris 4 German Luftwaffe aviators: Paul Stormer (Pilot), Karl Hund, Gottfried Berndt and Josef Reiser took off on a surveillance mission to acquire insights about Belfast Harbor in Northern Ireland. The Junkers 88 flew along the east shoreline of Ireland and was spotted by numerous post boxes and in the end likewise by British radar that mixed accessible Spitfires to catch.

The main firecracker on the scene pursued the Junkers 88 inland over Co Meath and in the airborne battle took a hit and collided with the ground on fire. The pilot Officer Boleslaw Sauwiak kicked the bucket later from his wounds in healing center.

Not long after Sauwiak smashed his plane two more firecrackers touched base on the scene from North Ireland. They pursued the plane southward however subsequent to coming up short on ammo and fuel needed to withdraw. The Junker headed its course towards Waterford flying over Kildare and Kilkenny on its way back to France. At the point when over Waterford two more firecrackers joined the battle this time from Wales bringing on the plane to constrain land in Tramore.

A nearby rancher seeing the plane accident on his territory headed out to help, he was held at weapon point by the 4 Luftwaffe men and once he quieted them down took them back to the farmhouse where they were given a full Irish breakfast. Soon thereafter the Irish Army captured the men and conveyed them to the Curragh Camp where they were interned.