Horizon glowing

Peter Mcfarlane of Crieff has been in touch and says: “The reader reporting his mother remembering bombs dropping at Hospital Mill Wood, near Springfield village around 1940, caught my attention.

“Also the Jim Bennet story recounted by Edna Barbour of other bombs dropped in that area. I lived in Crieff and can remember the Luftwaffe bombing Clydebank on March 13 and 14 1941.

“Looking southwards with my father, we could clearly see the horizon glowing as the town was being attacked. Having previously heard the bombers flying overhead towards their targets, on their return, they were being harassed by RAF fighters and released their unexpended bombs.

“One explosion was heard just outside the nearby village of Muthill, one closer towards Crieff near the River Earn, and one in a field next to Innerpeffray Library near Madderty.

“The next day, a crashed German bomber was driven through the town on the back of flatbed trucks. The Germans had several airfields in occupied southern Norway, and looking at Google Maps, you can clearly see that if the bombers were returning to one of these airfields, they would have had to fly over all these locations of Crieff and the villages in Fife.

“Could this bomber group be the same one mentioned by your other readers that flew over Crieff?