All images via author unless otherwise credited. (Red Kite) When a Heinkel 111 H-5 of 9/KG76 was brought down at Bendish House, Whitwell, Hertfordshire, on the night of 8/9 April 1941, while en-route to attack Coventry, it was not a particularly notable event for this period of the Luftwaffe’s night ‘Blitz’ against Britain. As usual, an investigating officer from the RAF’s technical intelligence section, A.I.(g), poked and prodded around the meagre wreckage left behind after the aircraft had plunged into the ground. And, as usual, the investigating officer commented on the engines, armaments, bomb racks, bullet holes, markings etc.
The report he eventually filed did not generally reveal any points of specific interest when compared to those relating to other similar aircraft that had come under investigation by A.I.(g) around…