Hess landed near floors farm in eaglesham and was apprehended by local ploughman davy mclean.
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Shortly after 11 p m.
A farmer took hess into custody at the point of a.
The red arrow represents the approximate crash of his plane.
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.
Nazi commander rudolf hess parachuted into a scottish field 70 years ago.
The village shares a community council with the neighbouring community of eaglesham.
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.
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News of the defection spread quick and the german s quickly labeled hess a madman.
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.
Hitler s deputy rudolf hess parachuted out of a plane and landed in a field at floors farm eaglesham 70 years ago.
The motive for this seemingly bizarre event still serves to baffle military and political experts to this day.
Hitler s deputy was arrested by pitchfork wielding ploughman david mclean on floor s farm near eaglesham south of glasgow.
In last week s news local historian bill niven described the events.
A remarkable event during world war ii was the landing of rudolf hess at eaglesham on 10 may 1941.
As part of his research for the film bill has uncovered a letter revealing that hitler s deputy told.