How did Spitfire and Hurricane pilots navigate

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Originally Posted by effortless

Geoffrey Wellum describes looking for home in the clag first hand in First Light.

an excellent book, well worth a read.

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Originally Posted by FakePilot

Germans did, according to the R.V. Jones book. The plane was guarded to be retrieved for study. Unfortunately the guards were told "No one touches it!" and stopped everyone from rescuing it from the rising tide....

it was a FW190 that landed at Pembry (I think). and it was flown by RAF pilots and used for improving the next generation of Spitfires.

Also old Winkle Brown was directed by a German controller, pretending to be English, deep into France. Luckily he realised what was going on in time.