Dornier 17 found off the English coast

[Big_Stu]

There was a documentary on UK TV many years ago that reckoned that Miller's plane was flying at wave-height for safety on a path which interecepted the aborted RAF mission. It was their opinion that the Miller plane was flying so low it would more likely have been taken out with the waves from the explosions in the water. The bombers had been given a warning to watch out for a lone Norseman, but said they didn't see one.

[uwe]

And it didn't even explode, just smashed right through.

[Muzikman7]

Every time I see this footage I feel sick.

I agree Scott. After watching this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oav6I0DcfY&playnext=1&list=PL72FD1AA616824E11 I don't know how they got anybody to fly those missions. I don't think I could do it.

[Aussie Mark]

One of the comments in that B-24 video Tony posted claims the impact/explosion was from AA, not a bomb from above.  The more I watch that video the more I think that's correct.  The stick of bombs that you can see in the video looks to actually be from the aircraft itself.

[TBird1958]

@ 1:01 In the pics the B-26 is crossing the French coast returning home trailing smoke from one engine........That pic and a subsequent one in Roger Freeman's "The Mighty Eight" tell that particular bomber did, in fact make it home.
The pics make me feel sick inside too, I admire the bravery of those that flew ( regardless of side ) in that war. 

[Big_Stu]

One of the comments in that B-24 video Tony posted claims the impact/explosion was from AA, not a bomb from above.  The more I watch that video the more I think that's correct.  The stick of bombs that you can see in the video looks to actually be from the aircraft itself.

There was a longer piece of the same footage in a programme I saw; possibly World At War the Laurence Olivier UK prog from the 1970s. You saw the bomb in that actually hit. (Assuming it was the same footage)
I'm guessing, but I would have thought that if it was AA from below the plane would have been knocked upwards initially before falling, I'm also guessing that the blow out is vaporising fuel?

Regardless, God bless the poor souls in that wreck, they couldn't have had much of a chance.