Interesting comment on the shell cases raining down, when i left school in 1960 i worked on a few local farms on the Romney Marsh and often used to discuss with some of the old guys who were retaind for farm work in WW2 the problems they faced from strafing aircraft and the many dog fights going on high above there heads. Remember this was front line the french coast being only 20 to 30 miles away a few minutes for fast fighter planes, the fields around are all well exposed and the only cover of sorts were the ditches surrounding some of the fields but even they were no help from falling spent ammo cases. We often came across some during the working day, the most frightning story was during 1943 a returning bomber in trouble with engine burning suddenly blew up above them scattering parts all over the place and a fighter that nosed dived in to a bank at 40 acre farm. The story as told was they managed to get a crane on the tail but as they dug the wreckage just sank deeper and they lost both pilot and plane
Les
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