Continuing the saga of Operation Sealion, it is now 10:00 am on 17th September 1940 and British reinforcements moving towards Lympne run into a German Parachute Battalion near Postling.
Here is the battle report. In hindsight it appears from the photographs that the spitfire mentioned in the report is actually a hurricane, but as far as the Germans were concerned it felt like a spitfire!
Word document: battle-report-j-postling-17-sep-1000-1200
PDF: battle-report-j-postling-17-sep-1000-1200