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Yes - Interesting fellow that old Sexton with his Military Pattern. He was a trained marksman and a regular in the first world war. So how much fluke really was involved ?
Though it was the Messerschmitt that got him in the papers at the time. It came to light that in May 44, just before D-Day, he also shared a Dornier reconnaissance aircraft with the local anti aircraft battery. The war was going better for the Allies then, so it wasn't so much of a propaganda coup. Plus the government was in the process of standing down the Home Guard.
The rifle, with some fragments of fuselage and a chronograph from the BF109, was displayed in the vestry until the late 1970's. Its last listing is in the Church Wardens Ecclesiastical Inventory of 1978.
After which building works took place at the church and it disappeared in the refurbishment.
"helplessly they stare at his tracks......."
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