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I was cycling down West Dyke Road where Tesco is now, on my way to the swimming baths. It was a nice sunny day about 11 O clock in the morning. No sirens had gone. I suddenly heard a 'brum brum' cannon fire or machine-gun fire and I looked up and saw two aircraft twisting round in the sky leaving vapour trails. Suddenly one of them started to tumble end over end over end passing right over Redcar and finishing up in a farmer's field near New Marske crossroads. The observer ended up in the small resevoir near the half mile bank in New Marske. I went up to see the aircraft with my Dad in the afternoon and it was a M E 210 twin engined two seater. It had landed flat in the field. It had not dived in and was recognisably a M E 210 and the tail plane was brought in by a fishing boat and laid on the Prom in front of the old Lifeboat Station. It laid there for two days. The germans had been sending over two M E 210's every day to photograph shipping in the Tees. At Thornaby they had Mark 5 Spitfires where they wer using Mark 9's down South. All the Mark 5's had to do was massacre the odd bomber which was no problem! but they couldn't catch the ME 210 which had height on its side and could dive away with it's photographs. This day they imported two Typhons from down South with a 2400 horsepower engine as apposed to about 1500 in a Spitfire. The Typhons ran over them like an express train. One turned towards Redcar and was shot down over New Marske and one turned towards Hartlepool and was shot down over there. The date was the 6th September 1942.

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