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Another view of Site 10 showing its size, the accommodation site linked to Site 11 by a footpath.
The sites deliberately dispersed to avoid casualties by any bombing raid by the Luftwaffe.

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The Germans visited Fiskerton only once on 4 March 1945, and strafed the airfield, dropping
3 or 4 bombs which exploded in the middle of the airfield with do damage or casualties. In a
strafing run near Scampton the same evening a Luftwaffe fighter hit telegraph poles and the
aircraft crashed, crew are now interned at St john the Baptist churchyard in Scampton village.

Luftwaffe Operation Gisela 3/4 March 1945