Can anyone fill me in on the British pilot in WWII who rammed a German bomber who was about to make it to London? I read somewhere recently that they were trying to dig for his remains and bury them in a place of honor.

He died late last year, his aircraft crashed at the junction of Buckingham Palace Road and Ebury Street London SW1. There was a history programme made a few years back when they dug up the remains of his plane from the road junction. When it crashed they just filled in the hole along with the plane and concreted over the top of it all.

was that a time team programme lee enfield?

KC yes it was if my memory is still working okay

This is the famous story of Flight Sergeant Ray Holmes who died last year aged 90 who supposedly rammed a Donier which was about to attack Buckingham Palace, after he had run out of ammo.

But its a myth. The Dornier wasn't about to attack Buckingham Palace.
In fact it wasn't going to attack anywhere, because it had already been abandoned by its surviving crew, and was flying on autopilot by the time Ray Holmes rammed it.
The Dornier was from I/KG 76 and flown by Oberleutnant Robert Zehbe, and was part of a mission to bomb the railway lines running between Clapham Junction and Battersea power station. However the formation had come under heavy attack, and Zehbe's aircraft had been badly hit with two crewman dead, so Zehbe ordered the two other crew members to bale out, he then set the aircraft on to autopilot and baled out himself. The bomber flew on, as part of the formation at first, but soon the main formation changed course, and the abandoned bomber flew on alone, until its meeting with Ray Holmes.

source, The Most Dangerous Enemy, A History Of The Battle Of Britain. By Stephen Bungay.

That maybe true, but I doubt Holmes knew that at the time. I doubt he would have risked his neck and his crate in order to ram a abandoned aircraft. its the intent that matters...

Originally Posted by mmarsh

That maybe true, but I doubt Holmes knew that at the time. I doubt he would have risked his neck and his crate in order to ram a abandoned aircraft. its the intent that matters...

Very true