Hess landed near floors farm in eaglesham and was apprehended by local ploughman davy mclean.
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News of the defection spread quick and the german s quickly labeled hess a madman.
A remarkable event during world war ii was the landing of rudolf hess at eaglesham on 10 may 1941.
A farmer took hess into custody at the point of a.
On the night of may 10th 1941 hitler s deputy rudolf hess bailed out of his aircraft a messerschmitt 110 after a five hour 900 mile flight and parachuted into a field at floors farm near the village of eaglesham on fenwick moor.
The village shares a community council with the neighbouring community of eaglesham.
Hitler s deputy rudolf hess parachuted out of a plane and landed in a field at floors farm eaglesham 70 years ago.
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With his fuel supply running low hess parachuted out over renfrewshire at 11 pm and broke his ankle upon landing at floors farm near eaglesham.
The red arrow represents the approximate crash of his plane.
Watterfit is a village in east renfrewshire scotland it is on the b767 road between clarkston and eaglesham which are both 1 mile 1 6 km to the north and south respectively while newton mearns is about 2 miles 3 km to the west and east kilbride about 5 miles 8 km to the southeast.
In last week s news local historian bill niven described the events.
Nazi commander rudolf hess parachuted into a scottish field 70 years ago.
David mclean a local ploughman ran out of his cottage at the rear of floors farm after hearing an aeroplane crashing and saw a parachutist coming down.
Hess piloted a messerschmitt bf 110 on may 10 1941 to scotland were he parachuted and landed near floors farm near eaglesham scotland.
A messerschmitt bf 110 aircraft crashed at floors farm with an airman bailing out and landing at floors farm.
As part of his research for the film bill has uncovered a letter revealing that hitler s deputy told.