My town Tramore is situated in a tranquil

ww2 weapons My town Tramore is situated in a tranquil and serene corner of Ireland and amid WW2 was not enormously influenced by what was going ahead in whatever is left of the world. Individuals knew about the war and sustenance was apportioned yet life proceeded with unaffected.

On Sunday morning 23rd of August 1942 things were to get a considerable measure diverse, the same number of townsfolk advanced toward 10am mass at the nearby church they heard boisterous clamor from a German airplane being pursued by two British firecrackers. Neighborhood individuals needed to plunge to security as slugs descended upon the road as the Junker diminished elevation significantly and experienced harsh criticism.

The German plane a Junkers 88 taking flame from the British firecrackers compel 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 long run likewise by British radar that mixed accessible Spitfires to block.

The primary firecracker on the scene pursued the Junkers 88 inland over Co Meath and in the aeronautical 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 facility.

Not long after Sauwiak slammed his plane two more firecrackers touched base on the scene from North Ireland. They pursued the plane southward yet in the wake of 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 drive arrive in Tramore.

A neighborhood agriculturist seeing the plane crash on his property 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.

One of the Officers numerous years after the fact came back to Tramore to see again the huge inlet over which his plane smashed.

This article was assembled in the wake of perusing the book Tramore of Long Ago by Andy Taylor and Internet Sources.