Did we help Nazi bomber escape after Shropshire air raid?
After a successful raid on Tern Hill airfield, the Luftwaffe airman had become a bit lost.
By Toby Neal
Published
But a tale heard years ago by former Newport mayor David Adams suggests that the bomber pilot could have unwittingly been given helpful directions from the ground which helped him make his getaway.
David, who was born in December 1937, has been writing his memoirs and in his chapter covering the war years in Newport.
They were many trips to see his grandfather George Beeston who lived on Chester Road out of Whitchurch, and the journey took them past the airfield.
As young David sat in the back of his father's car he often noticed that there was a blackened hole in the roof and gable of the nearest hangar, just visible from the road.
