On 14th September 1940, two German airmen were shot down and crashed at Munsgrove Lane, though it was reported they crashed in Key Street.

They were flying a ME Bf110C-4 with 7./ZG76 squadron, when they were hit by anti-arcraft fire. They both bailed out, but were too low to survive. 
The two Germans were:
1) Unteroffizier (Pilot) Georg Alfred Bierling, born on 8th September 1914 in Hamburg. He is buried in plot 4 row 4 grave 54,
2) Unteroffizier (Observer) Friedrich Wilhelm Kurella, born on 21 April 1915 in Lucka, Germany.  He is buried in plot 4 row 4 grave 55.

They were initially buried in Borden churchyard and in the 1960s an arrangement between the UK and German government, they were re-interred in Cannock Chase German Military Cemetery, together with 61 other German airmen who lost their lives in Swale.