But the British were ready, and bullets peppered the plane, forcing it into an emergency landing on the nearby
Goodwin Sands at low tide.
A thousand seamen were lost on
Goodwin Sands alone.
opened the a donation and soon flocking offices On November 14, Pilot Officer Hubert "Dizzy" Allen destroyed a Junkers Ju87 near
Goodwin Sands and damaged another near Dover.
The Dutch East India Company vessel Rooswijk sank on the treacherous
Goodwin Sands in 1740, with the loss of an estimated 250 lives, just a day after leaving the Netherlands bound for what is now Jakarta in Indonesia.
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Head of collections at the RAF Museum Ian Thirsk said that the effort is to restore the piece of history that has been buried on the seafloor of
Goodwin Sands for decades.
Shot down by the RAF during the Battle of Britain and said to be in remarkable condition, the plane is lying upside down in 50ft of water on
Goodwin Sands in the English Channel.
He spoke at the weekend as efforts started to recover a Dornier DO-17 German bomber from the
Goodwin Sands off the coast of Kent for eventual display in the RAF Museum.
Its retrieval from the
Goodwin Sands off the Kent coast more than 70 years after it was shot down during the Battle of Britain will mark the biggest recovery of its kind in British waters, the RAF Museum said.
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Mr Beckett said the
Goodwin Sands site has several advantages over its rivals.