Originally Posted by Maxibon
2. I understand that Major Faltke was representative of Adolph Galland but when Maj Brandt and his erstwhile navigator are sent for interview without coffee for bombing London, was this correct? Did Brandt's less than capable navigator actually cuff it and bombs were released in the wrong place? If so, who were Brandt and nav in real life and what happened to them.
Hollywood license.
There were three seperate raids on the night of the 24th, so while it's always been pressumed that the first bombs that fell on East Ham, West Ham, Stepney, Bethnal Green, Hackney, Leyton, Walthamstow, Edmonton, Islington and Bloomsbury between the hrs of 23.00 and 01.30 was the result of an overflight of a proposed raid on the Thameshaven oil storage depot..... bombs also fell on Stepney, Bethnal Green, Hackney and Finsbury between the hrs of 03.00 and 04.00 which was clearly a seperate raid.
Bombs also fell in the areas of Esher, Kingston, Twickenham, Feltham and Staines to the west and south west of London between the hrs of 23.50 and 00.30 indicating a 3rd seperate raiding force.
Whether deliberate or accidental has never been 100% determined.