Whitley V Z6795 of No.10 OTU was thought to have been ditched off The Lizard on return from an anti-submarine patrol on 21 September 1942. However, a photo in The Whitley File shows it parked on a French quayside. It was presumed to have been towed in and hoisted ashore. However, there still seems to be more mystery about the circumstances as Dennis Thompson has provided the four photographs taken on this occasion.
The Whitley seems to have arrived in a lighter to be hoisted in with the large crane, one suspects at Brest. The wheels and flaps are down which would suggest that the aircraft force-landed somewhere in Brittany, presumably close to the coast. The Rade de Brest has a lot of meandering inlets, something like south Devon and Cornwall in nature, and some quite large areas of moorland. If it did land with its wheels down, then it could have been towed to a point where it could have been taken aboard the lighter.
Late 1942 was possibly too late for the Germans to be interesting in taking a Whitley to Germany for trials. Any antisubmarine equipment aboard could more easily have been removed and despatched for test.
Netting covers the nose as far aft as the wings. Was this a camouflage net to obscure the shape of the aircraft from reconnaissance aircraft? Or did the Whitley land on a beach and collect a fishing net?

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Armstrong Whitworth Whitley / A.W.38 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1936

A Mitchell of No.180 Squadron in July 1943 when it was based at Foulsham. Scrutiny of pre-war maps has failed to locate where it was taken. No woods and house to correspondent with that visible have been found.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: North American B-25 Mitchell / PBJ-1 - СШАUSA - 1940

Venturas of No.464 Squadron RAAF running up on the grass at Methwold.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Lockheed B-34 Lexington / PV Ventura / PV-2 Harpoon - СШАUSA - 1941

The photo was taken on 5 October 1931 from HMS Ark Royal (which became Pegasus to make way for the new carrier of the same name). The aircraft is not exactly a Nimrod but is the H.N1, originally named the Norn or Naval Hornet which served as the prototype for the Nimrod as S1577.
After it had served its time, S1577 was used in a series of flotation tests to see how long it would remain afloat in the event of a ditching. Flotation chambers were fitted in the fuselage and upper wing centre section.
In the photo, the aircraft has just been lowered into the water where apparently it remained above water for an hour. Presumably it remained attached to a crane so that it could be hoisted back to the surface.

Самолёты на фотографии: Aircrafts on the photo: Hawker Nimrod - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1931