re the identification tags, the bodies were washed up on the beach, but were headless, I guess through impact on crashing? I don't know if there was any wreckage of the plain.
If there was no wreckage found then that makes a big difference as to which raid we are looking for. In that case they could have come down in one of the Swansea Raids of February 1941 and currents then carried the bodies across the Bristol Channel:
19 Feb 1941
German bombers began a three-day campaign against the port city of Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom.
20 Feb 1941
German Luftwaffe bombed Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom for the second consecutive night.
21 Feb 1941
Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom was attacked for the third consecutive and final day as bombers flew over the port city from 1950 hours until after midnight. Over the course of the three days, 35,000 incendiary bombs and 800 high explosive bombs were dropped on Swansea, killing 230 and wounding 409, but the strategically important docks and nearby oil refineries were relatively unaffected.
The fact that both bodies were headless tells us something. I think it indicates that they would have had to have been in an aircraft where the canopy came off to behead them both simultaneously. I think that rules out a fighter plane. The JU 87 (Stuka) did have a gunner sitting behind the pilot but this plane was more or less ruled out by 1941.
Perhaps we can find out who was lost in the Feb 1941 raids on Swansea?
I checked out Henrietta's War, but there is little information of actual raids in that, save for one in May 1941 when Henrietta (fictional name used by the author Joyce Dennys) had an argument with a neighbour over who now owned an incendiary bomb and so had the right to put it out. The bomb died while they were arguing. Joyce lived in Budleigh Salterton.