i remember during the war, a welington , orlancaster , crashing into houses on wold rd hull, the pilot was a corpaeral, aparantly he didnt pass ro be a pilot, and this night , he took the lane up , on his own, my father was a fire man , off duty, but he was the first to turn off the gas in the houses , and get the pilot out unfortunatly he was dead, , when the fire engine arrived, the cheef balled my father out for not waiting, i remember it all so well, i am now 88, i lived at 360 wld rd nearly oposit, the plane was from leckonfield. They were all temporarily buried at the temporary cemetery in Cambridge, and 3 from this crew remain here in the permanent cemetery, 4 including SSgt Logan were repatriated back to the United States. Fantastic. Originally from N.Ireland, age 20 years. Have you ever seen the wreckage or heard stories about this particular crash? would there not have been an official (though not public) inquiry after the event? Ammunition was flying everywhere. Seeking any official details of wreckage site, location, photos. I couldnt find anything on your website. They were later identified as Flying Officer Thomas and his crew who were overdue from a cross country navigation exercise.. 42 locations with stored, preserved or otherwise out of service airplanes found in Scotland. aircraft that crashed into the sea off the north Wales coast during World war 2. The exact date of this crash is unknown. Looking for the exact location of a memorial for a Lancaster bomber that went down just outside Bicker, Lincolnshire on the 10th April 1944. One B17 certainly crashed at Home Farm Hoxne. Use the slider or your mouse scroll wheel to zoom in and out. They might assist you in finding more information. Hi Fred, thank you for sharing your memories of that night with us. Any help would be most greatly appreciated. Below; photo from the 457 Bomb Group Association showing some of the wreckage. Do take a look at the comments section, there is quite a lot of info people have added about air crashes in the area (link below). Once the process is complete, a link to the document entitled 'Printout' will be displayed. Flying to Denmark for first time in April. Im trying to put together a memorial frame for him. I am going to the American Cemetery at Madingley this coming weekend and I hope they may be able to suggest where they might be obtained. Hover over a marker for more information. USAAF B-17 42-31322 'Mi Amigo', Endcliffe Park, Sheffield. Experiments were carried out including an unsuccessful attempt to launch a fighter aircraft from a non-rigid balloon. Obviously, I dont check my email daily, but Ill try to be better now. In Kent, over 600 terrestrial . Because of the rough terrain and low visibility, it took rescuers a long time to reach the crash site. Do you have any details of this crash?. AIRFIELDS. The Manchester went down. Mrs Nelson, wife of the Station Commander at RAF Blyton, was outside when she saw a fire overhead. You live in a very nice part of the Norfolk coast.I am a Norfolk Dumpling myself although I now live in exile at Peterborough. Princess Risborough. Would you have anything on this. The wreckage was not discovered until June 13, 1957 (Macha and Jordan 2002). My email address is on the contact page of this site, if you want to email me a photo of your find, I can add it here? My grandfather, Anthony Hunter, was on the flight and I would like to visit the site. All 8 occupants killed. How do I obtain crash site reports from the date August 1943 which may or may not show the extent of what or was not recovered. Has crew list and an account of the crash. Somewhere we have documentary evidence. Other than that, all I can suggest is the usual approaches which you may have already made or considered; a trawl though the mircrofilm archived local newpapers of the time at the local library is time consuming but can turn up all sorts of stuff. Yorkshire Air Museum picked up the rear fuselage from here. Crew bailed out safely. Crashed April 21 1943 near Elmley Lovett, Worcestershire. Hi Gary I live very near to you and I have done some similar research but in relation to bomber command, maybe this info will help. That is a fascinating story Paul. I saw a picture of the headstone of his grave on findagrave.com. I also knew from my mother, Hetty Allen (sadly died May 19 2019) that he was also shot down over Malta and that he was a member of the Guinea Pig Club. The name of your brother is familiar to me but I dont think I knew him. FS Kraemer mid upper gunner unfortunately L lost his life but his body was recovered from the wreckage and buried 3 days later in Cambridge. Ive done a bit of checking and it seems he was a navigator with RAFVR and fell out of a Whitely at 1400ft in the peak district of Derbyshire while attached to 81 OTU at Ashbourne. IX, NH356. The aircraft crashed in farmland near Park Farm which is about one mile east of the village of Hoxne in Suffolk. My mother used to work there in the 1950s and 60s. You could nonentheless contact the RAF Museum and ask them for some guidance? The circumstances of each of those crashes are described in my book, which draws on eyewitness accounts and primary sources from both sides.". 26 April 2011. 122 . It does sound a little unreasonable given, as you say, the land owner is at liberty to dig on his own land but not apparently disturb what may be there or may not be there. It was travelling at between . Had the glider still been attached the sudden dive/spin of the tug would have broken the Waco in half. It was raining hard that night. Hi Allan, not a site I have visited, but it was Wellington L7857, crashed 17 October 1940. His name is flight sergent robert sidney brothwell raf 1238487. While he was traning another pilot. Richard. Best wishes Aviation Archeological Research and Investigation On this page search by pressing (as you can on any page or document) Ctrl + F and in the search bar type 42-97236; it will take you to the entry for this aircraft. Hi i would like to know a little more.about the 2 B17 that collided over Braintree Essex UK 1945 10 march, Looking for information and photos of the crash(es) that took place Mar. I visited madingly on the 20th May and had a chat with the Superintendent there. Thanks Ian. Anything would be most appreciated. Im sorry that I do not have more information to go with this story. Several of crew were killed. . Barry. Your email address will not be published. Ive heard that some of the planes are still located where they fell. ww2 plane crash sites map kent. Registration No L6290. I had a hunch that the plane might have come from Podington in Beds, now the site of the race track Santa Pod.I Corresponded with Dearborn about this,but there was no way of getting to the site. Thanks to former Stanhoe resident Arthur Walker for most of the information on these crash sites. When I was a schoolboy in the 40s (I,m in my eighties now) and attended Margaretting C E school in Essex. A He-111 on the borders of Sweden with Norway Sweden . P-47 Thunderbolt 41-6538. My brother and I visited a plane crash site one evening in 1942. Hi Richard, Made contact with Stan Bishop, the only info he has is what I have Apparently two Lancasters, ME323 and PB476 of 12 Squadron were on training flights when shot down by Luftwaffe Junkers 88s. If you wanted to send me an email to jroy1e@me.com &/or WhatsApp me on +44 (0)7753252946 I can then send you what I have. Trying to find the exact location of crashed Avro Lancaster 11 683 Hello, one site after another has led me here. I am researching Shazam on behalf of the Costessey Memories Group which is attached to the Costessey general library. Hi there I grew up 1/4 of a mile away from the crash site in Hoxne and still shoot on the land regularly if I can be of any help there are plenty of local storys about the crash! what aircraft it was and if the crew survived. They were returning from an attack on Germany (Cologne?) Flight Sergeant J M Wilde, Sergeant B R Stevenson (RCAF), Sergeant A W Beynon: killed; Flying Officer L C Boore, Pilot Officer W H Pinfold, Sergeant S Davies, Sergeant Holden: injured; aircraft accident at Banham Farm, Blewbury, Berkshire, Wellington L4323, 15 Operational Training Unit, 8 September 1941. ref:https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C16997728, Thank you for the information Lance. Would you happen to know the name of the landholder where you found the pieces of the plane? They are collating memories from us older residents (or in my case ex-resident) so that these may be recorded for posterity and provide a reminder to future generation of what life was like in the village. Hi Martin, it is not a crash site I have visited but maybe I need to, was not aware of it! Click on this link to open the PDF so that you can print or save it. He was someone I saw when I was staying in Knockholt. A NEW digital map has painstakingly recorded all the bombs that fell on Britain during World War II. The parents of the crew had a wooden church built on the crash site. This interactive image was created with ThingLink. Its website states that it has established cooperation between the Aircraft Recovery Group 1940-1945 (ARG) and the foundation CRASH '40-'45. I remember Grosvenor Aslachsen being Rector. Other times such the as the request about the P-47 above searches all end up pointing to the same very limited resource. Im researching its history. It seems that my intuition led me to write the correct person after all. I would appreciate any information which might help me in my search. My dad has been talking about the crash that occurred at Curry Wood as he lived in Halstead and remembers it occurring. Source Material The main source material used for the maps were the St Margaret's ARP Log books, transcribed by our Hon. Sqn. Derek Scaless decorations raise money for charity. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Originally marked as lost with out a trace, new information was found according to German night fighter logs. Thanks. Bill. http://www.asisbiz.com/il2/Bf-110/NJG1-Schnaufer.html. Takeoff Date: Crew Status: Crash Date: The crash site was close to Lampeter, Mid Wales. One of the most prominent aircraft crash sites can be discovered from Wasdale Head. 115. I would appreciate any information you have on John, 44 squadron or Lamsdorf. Hi Geoff, have you seen this? The 75th anniversary is looming and me being the Parish Chair for Birkin we are to erect a memorial to the flight crews at the crash site. "It gives you a buzz of excitement, because we . These sites are not protected in any way but anyone finding items would have the sense and good manners to inform the local RAF base and let them take it from there, easiest way around that. have paperwork and two oakclusters but cant decipher without plane or crewnames the missions he flew dads name William f. Ireland . on 13 Aug 44 near Wasserliesch, SW of Trier. The Aircraft suffered an engine explosion followed by a fierce fire which led to the wing becoming detached before the plane crashed. NOT the B24 that crashed on Freckleton school near what is now Bae Warton. Sorry to be a bit vague on this one, I cant even recall the aircraft serial or unit. This may be the same crash. The Lost King (12A) (Drama/History) is showing in Stanhoe on Friday 27 January at 7.30 pm. It even listed his rank and squadron number (748). Two Polish pilots on a flying exercise, long after taking off from Usworth, near Sunderland, flew through the cloud and hit the south end of Slight Side near Scafell. A small plane that took off from Auburn crashed Saturday into a storage facility in Kent . Very happy to share it with you if you wanted it? Does anyone know of the crash site of my uncle. Plane crash map Locate crash sites, wreckage and more. i am looking for info of 2 b17,s colliding over Braintree Essex around 1945 as i live not far from were the tail section fell the other B17 got back ok .I am looking for any info of details were the tail fell. To Sarah Rushen He was killed testing this aircraft on 18 April 1944 having taken off from an airfield near Salisbury heading for a dive bombing range. Above the target area they all of the sudden heard a big bang right underneath their a/c and pilot Hubbard told them to check the instrument etc., but all seemed to be OK. The five Australians were buried in the Cambridge City Cemetery and the other two were taken to their home towns. From past experience I think you will have a problem if you dont have a diffinative date.There is a book on Amazon called fighter command losses but without a date you will need to read every entry. You should be able to purchase a full accident report from this site. But there seems to be some doubt about this Wittering crash. When I contacted the American Battle Monuments Commission I was told of some books that had been written about American aircraft losses during the war. Derrick, thank you for your reply. It was sad to hear of his death. The wreath marks the location where a Wellington bomber aircraft crashed. Crashed on Freckleton school near what is now Bae Warton broken the Waco in half a plane. 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