Front gunner Leslie Davenport, from Birmingham, was on the way back from a raid with Bomber Command over Berlin on September 7, 1941 when he was shot down and captured by the Nazis A man who was fascinated with his grandfather's plane crash behind enemy lines during the Second World War has tracked down the wreckage in a forest in Germany after years of research. Front gunner Leslie Davenport, from Birmingham, was on a raid over Berlin on September 7, 1941 - one of the most dangerous missions for Bomber Command. Returning from the German capital, the Short Stirling plane he was flying in was badly damaged by flak and then attacked by a night fighter.
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Leslie Davenport was a front gunner for Bomber Command during WW2
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His plane was shot down after raid over Berlin in 1941, but the crew survived
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They bailed out of the plane but were soon caught by the Nazis
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In 2008, 20 years after his death, his grandson decided to find the wreckage
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Ian Davenport spent six years working out the final fate of the bomber
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Amazingly the wreckage was found in a dense forest in western Germany
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