The aircraft, a Heinkel 111, was shot down at High Salvington, near Worthing in Sussex, on 16 August 1940 during the second phase of the Battle of Britain. Moore may have made this and the following drawing as a result of a visit to his former art teacher Alice Gostick, who had a house in High Salvington, or from a photograph in the Worthing Gazette. As already noted, some war drawings dated 1940 predate the Shelter Sketchbooks.