HOME GUARDS KEEP WATCH ON A NAZI DIVE BOMBER This remarkable picture turned up at Rye Auction Galleries. It shows a Home Guard contingent (possibly from Rye) who were first on the scene when a Stuka Dive Bomber made a forced landing in a field near Pett on August 31st. 1940.
![Stuka Dive Bomber which Crash Landed at Pett Aug 1940](https://ryesown.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2001/09/Stuka-Dive-Bomber-which-Crash-Landed-at-Pett-Aug-1940-e1428015534823-300x193.jpg)
Some of the faces look familiar, can readers identify who these lads were? Other photographs in the same batch show the Benenden Home Guard in a group picture and two other shots of German aircraft brought down “Somewhere in Southern England”
Rye’s Own September 2001