German landings on mainland Britain?

Hi all,
apologies if this has been posted before, but i happened upon a book the other day which claimed to contain evidence on German landings on English soil (not the channel islands) during the war. I was wondering if anyone has any information or sources as to whether this is fact or fiction? I'm sure that there would have at least been some recon, if not an attempted raid or two, in the months after dunkirk.
Cheers
Rob

 

I did found the 1940 'Shingle street ' street incident .
1940: The Secret War at Shingle Street


There seems to have happed something similar to the isle of wight :
Isle of Wight History Centre News Archive April 2003

WORLD WAR TWO MYTH EXPOSED AS
GERMAN LANDING ON THE ISLAND IS CONFIRMEDIt has always been claimed that no German landing party ever set foot on British soil. Nevertheless speculation of a German raid at St Lawrence has been circulating amongst a few interested parties for some time. It recently went public when a web site invited any locals with knowledge of the event to come forward. We now learn that extensive research by an Island author has confirmed the raid and that he plans to publish a book exposing the full story The incident is said to have come to light some years ago when an Islander visiting Germany was confronted with a German war veteran who claimed to have taken part in the landing. He said it was a commando raid intended to capture equipment at an Island radar station, thought to be the low level unit at St Lawrence. The small party arrived by gunboat and scaled the cliff. They had anticipated little more than Home Guard resistance but were in fact confronted by regular soldiers. A fire fight ensued before the Germans eventually retreated without losses.
Some doubted the validity of the story on grounds the raid would have surely become local knowledge and thus revealed long ago. Others felt this type of incident would have been hushed up at the time for reasons of morale and the demand for secrecy may have lingered on.
Adrian Searle, author of Isle of Wight at War, has now revealed he has been researching the event for some time and confirms the raid certainly took place. He says it was launched out of German occupied Alderney in 1941. Even more surprising is the revelation that the operation was a partial success in that some equipment was taken and one or two British personnel were captured, presumably for interrogation. This would have been of considerable embarrassment to the authorities and explains why news of the event never leaked out. Indeed there is a suggestion that reference to the raid has been permanently removed from military archives. There is more to be revealed and Adrian anticipates his publication of the full story will cause a something of a sensation.

 

spokane daily chronicle,make of it what you will! article r/side of newspaper..ray..

Spokane Daily Chronicle - Google News Archive Search

 

on a less serious note, 2 films of that nature, michael caine, "the eagle has landed", and "went the day well" a ww2 propaganda film, but a forerunner to caines film..really nice film too..video clip.. http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi65143065/

Went The Day Well? is first and foremost a propaganda piece, a morale boosting piece of German bashing with an educational warning about the dangers of quislings and Fifth Columnists. Fortunately, it's of more than mere historical interest thanks to some well-paced action, enthusiastic acting and the influence of Graham Greene's dark imagination

 

Nice find Ray ..good one
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Too many chutes for a plane crew alone..

 

I always had this feeling that "The Eagle has Landed" is actually a BBC docu.

Oh darn it, I just noticed that Slip already took that one.

Regards
Kruska

 

Oh darn you Snip, may your family be cursed for generations in enduring the evil of cut down movies.

Where is the rest of it???

Regards
Kruska

 

go to youtube andy...several snippets

here you go andy, enjoy..ray
http://video.google.nl/videoplay?do...KiQKfvKGpAw&q=Went+the+Day+Well?+(1942)&hl=nl#

 

thanks heinrich,all good fun though..

 

How you ended up in that obscure Spokanes newspaper archive will remain a mysterie ..
Iam curious tough how a tiny Spokane news paper could have ended up printing that info ?? Bet it was a crazy homing pigeon that blew over the ocean and ended up there !

 

man of mystery heinrich. done with mirrors, ha! ha!..ray..

 

mmm! you decde? 1940: The Secret War at Shingle Street

 

the shingle street mystery.. good fun.. BBC - Suffolk Don't Miss - Codename Suffolk - The Bodies on the Beach

 

"went the day well" video.. http://video.google.nl/videoplay?doc...?+(1942)&hl=nl#

 

Hello Snip

Y-tube? B..b..bu..but ..I am in China - here no have u-dube

Regards
Kruska

 

dont need you tube! watch the film here.. http://video.google.nl/videoplay?doc...?+(1942)&hl=nl#

 

The only known German military landings on mainland Britain during WW, that can be verified by any worthwhile evidence, are those of Luftwaffe aircrew who had baled out of their damaged aircraft, any other claims are pure fantasy.

 

*bump* for an update-
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4044710/Britskrieg-New-book-claims-Nazis-DID-set-foot-UK-soil-WWII-raiding-radar-station-Isle-Wight-sabotage-operation-hushed-70-years.html