NAZI leader Rudolf Hess made a surprise visit to Scotland in May 1941, when he bailed out of his ailing plane to parachute onto Eaglesham Moor.

Taken prisoner by local ploughman David McLean, the full truth of Hess's flight to Scotland has never been revealed. Some say he was en-route to Dungavel House, where he hoped to sue for peace with the Duke of Hamilton.

From the farmhouse, Hess was taken to Giffnock Scout Hall, then the Home Guard HQ, and from there to a cell at Maryhill Barracks.

His crashed Messerschmitt 110 soon became a magnet for trophy hunters.

Today, one of its engines can be seen at the National Museum of Flight at East Fortune.

Hess died, aged 93, in 1987, while still a prisoner at Berlin's Spandau Prison.