A Dornier 17 on a training flight suffered engine failure and crashed on the rocks next to La Rocco Tower on 1 November 1940. The three crew, plus another airman who had gone along for a ride, were all killed.
German records show them to have been the flight's commander, Lt Wilhelm Göhringer, who survived the initial impact but died later, Feld Werner Kramer, Uffz Grunmuller and Gefr Pfiffner.
The men were buried with full military honours in the German cemetery at St Brelade's Church.
These pictures are from the former website of the Aviation Forum - click on any image to see the full-size version
The injured flight commander is placed on a stretcher
The Dornier's tailplane on the beach
One of the aircraft's engines
German troops survey the wreckage
The burial of the crash victims
The victims of the crash
This picture of an aircraft - similar to the one which crashed - flying over St Brelade's Bay was probably superimposed
An official Luftwaffe record of the crash
