Takeoff Date: Crew Status: Crash Date: Thank You. She married a Packman from Knockholt. Does anyone have any information regarding the collision of two Lancasters, just outside Waltham airfield, on Black Thursday? Not come across any photos of him yet. Kind regards Stanhoes weekly coffee mornings end the year on a high note. Has crew list and an account of the crash. III that crashed in the Scottish Highlands on a headland known as Eagle's Rock ( Scottish Gaelic: Creag na h-Iolaire) near Dunbeath, Caithness, on 25 August 1942. Doing a short piece on one of my facebook groups. Lancaster NE132 near Harlech. The pertinent part of the letter is as follows: Please see below the information that we have on the crash which involved SSgt Logan. It was travelling at between . Sometimes the info is out there and it all opens up and its enjoyable to pirce the story together when it does (and there is more to be found I am sure, not least ironing out the discrepancies). FIVE years after calls for two World War II plane crash sites to be declared war graves, the downed planes, and their deceased crew, remain unprotected and open to relic hunters. 1. At present, have no details as to year/date of crash, aircraft type,unit or no of crew/casualties, so this may be a non-starter best consigned to realms of rumour. It seems that my intuition led me to write the correct person after all. Hoping to help Dutch son of Ceess best friend from those days. That is fantastic info!! google location map; maps. Chris Thomson But there seems to be some doubt about this Wittering crash. Bruntingthorpe, Bitteswell ( now Magna Park ) and Rearsby were used for new aircraft storage. Ian, Hi What great work being done here. It looks very different nowadays. Several years ago had a visit from 3 of the surviving crew members who found quite a few bits of their plane on our land that adjoins the crash site. Service personnel from Marham are ready to take part in a controlled mini excavation as part of their development. Thats why I knew I had the correct person. I read 14 killed and Id like to know if it included my great uncle Mathew Vinkovich. operation and because of low cloud base forced the aircraft to fly very low over the German and I was told that the aircraft were Barracudas. Is there anyone out there who can either supply info or point me in the right direction . Granpa Towler sometimes officiated at Evensong at the Otford Lane Mission., after 1954. But anyway it is on the corner of Back Street and St Peters Close in the village. Sorry report isnt that clear but cant identify it from your site info, http://www.mapperleyhistory.com/History_Pages/Wellington-Dedication-A5.html. From the research I have conducted thus far the ac although fatally wounded and trying to recover to Marham instead of Bourne the pilot gave the order to the rest of the crew to bail out was going it alone. It is titled I Join The Fray. Without sounding sarcastic a name and possible sqn would be helpful. Im looking for any info in regards to Lancaster LL701 that went down on February 24/25 1944 on a Schweinfurt night raid. The crash was at Blewbury Hill Didcot. Well done for all of this. The church has had a few incumbents since Ashlachsen, we were married in 1991 by Malcolm Bury but he has sadly died. Your email address will not be published. Judging by the empty hop garden and the warm clothing this is either very early in 1940 or much later in the year Hi Jonathan, It was a Fairey Battle plane from Cottesmore, Rutland, night flying over Norfolk. Couldnt see this one listed, which RAF Brize Norton has just had on their FB page 27th Aug 20: https://bit.ly/3jnkhfQ. NOT the B24 that crashed on Freckleton school near what is now Bae Warton. Hi Roger Barry. Seeking any official details of wreckage site, location, photos. I will take a look but its not my neck of the woods really. 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. Several agencies pulled a 59-year-old man and a 23-year-old man out of the wreck. when I visit the Forum. The onus is now on me to prove that all remains were recovered. I was told by my late grandmother he was killed near the Firth of Forth on a training exercise, unfortunately, I wish I had listened more when I was younger. He had survived many missions over Germany and Occupied Europe but apparently was killed while doing some training flights, possibly in the Salop area. Im eager to keep going. Footnote 1] Have a brother who lives in Costessey Michael Wright [ I was adopted ] ever come across him ? The Dunbeath air crash involved the loss of a Short S.25 Sunderland Mk. http://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/details.php?uniq=Z9471. I dont think this is the correct place because your dates are different, but Im looking for more information about the crash where my great uncle lost his life, and I really dont know where else to look. My assumption is that the crash must have occurred the same day, but that may be wrong. His aircraft took off from Glatton at 14:19 hrs on an operational mission. He was a TEC 5 and died in a plane crash, Killed On Duty but Not In Battle, in England on that date. See map. I am trying to get permission for a controlled survey of the site involving service personnel from a local RAF Station with full archeological support from qualified people. The crash site being about 7 miles out to sea from Prestatyn. The circumstances of each of those crashes are described in my book, which draws on eyewitness accounts and primary sources from both sides.". 2 Killed Including Russell Charles Denny from Western Australia. ww2 plane crash sites map kent. Does anyone know if there is a memorial to the 4 aircrew members of 157 Squadron who died when their Airspeed Oxford (HM763) crashed after a dummy attack by an American Pilot flying a Mustang near Methwold in Norfolk on 1st May 1945? I have walked past it a few years ago so its also close to a public right of way. Best wishes, Very sorry to hear of your loss, Hazel. Thank you for your email earlier in the year. He was originally from Stowmarket in Suffolk and I am the towns historin trying to put a nice piece together about his short life. Ottersum - Limburg. Details. I am trying to find out any information about a B-17 Flying Fortress plane crash May 31, 1945. Registration No L6290. Thanks, (Pre-Crash): dad was a tailgunner and radio operator from 9-1-44to 10-45.best mom remembers he was shot down over dewey france and the French resistance got them back to England. This map was created by a user. Does anybody know of any record of a B17 stationed at Parham crashing near Framlington Castle? 1939-40 1941 1942 1943 1944-5 A composite 1939-45 map. Airspeed Oxford NM683, Rushup Edge, Peak District. Superfortress 44-61999 Over-Exposed! air crash site on Bleaklow, Aviation Archeological Research and Investigation, https://www.aviationarchaeology.com/src/AARmonthly/May1945O.htm, http://www.americanairmuseum.com/aircraft/12924, http://www.parhamairfieldmuseum.co.uk/390th-bomb-group/interesting-information-and-facts/, https://aircrewremembrancesociety3.com/Aircraft-Losses/USAAF-Losses/U.S.A.A.F.Losses-1943/page-49/, All photos and text are aircrashsites.co.uk unless otherwise stated. The interactive map shows where every bomb landed, from the first to hit the mainland in the . The details you have provided dont match anything in The Mighty eighth War Diary book. My dad cycled from Great Glemham and my mum cycled from Saxmundham and that is how they met. Does anyone know of the crash site of my uncle. The Lockheed P-38 Lightening fighter aircraft nicknamed the Maid of Harlech and its pilot crash-landed into the sea off the North Wales coast in September 1942 (Image: PA) Watch, learn. Ilse and I walked along Beldam Haw on Monday and I looked N. across the crash field which is divided into blocks by barbed wire. Also worth noting that one can stay at the Restaurant les Grpins & that the UK company http://www.solognac.co.uk has a campus there. Click on a location name to go to the location page, or click on the coordinates to go to the map. Obviously, I dont check my email daily, but Ill try to be better now. I could have searched for many more years and not found the wonderful sources you did. I feel it is just a civil servant playing overly safe. I lived with my mother in the middle of three houses opposite the site (my father was serving in the RAF in the Sudan at the time). Showing images tagged with WW2 Aircraft Crash Site tag. We have no photo of this aircraft and would very much appreciate any input. Bomber crash in the village of Wellington Heath in Herefordshire in 1942-43. The five Australians were buried in the Cambridge City Cemetery and the other two were taken to their home towns. They had the misfortune to be undertaking night navigation exercises the same night that the Luftwaffe launched its last big revenge attack against the RAF. Crash site of USAAF P51B Mustang 43-12419 on Rooley Moor. I have to go back at what I just now do remember (without checking) and what Tom wrote and told me in his original letters to me! Hi Mick this would be William Hughes from Ticknall? Any information will be gratefull received. who were killed near this site And you said there are many local stories about the crash? By. Click the "Satellite" button for an aerial view. In short, if you wanted to reply to my email address I can send it all over to you. As the plane reached about 900 feet, it slammed into the side of Cape Lookout, traveling about 200 miles per hour. The recollections of some of the farm workers who worked on the farm at the time of the crash were that the plane crashed on a Saturday lunchtime just as they were finishing work, 29/04/1944 was a Saturday. This accident is documented, but I have not seen it listed in any air crash sites or even in any number of incident lists. A researcher from the University of York used wartime intelligence reports to compile the . See map. They recently published an article about a Lancaster that crashed at Scraptoft. https://indexarticles.com/newspaper-collection/sunday-herald-the/wartime-mystery-to-rise-from-the-deep/. The Manchester went down. Bill. Thank you so much. Date of crash/deaths is 29 April 1943. The only Anson crash off the North Wales coast was, I recall from a picture in a book somewhere (possibly Llanbedr area) I saw many years ago, one that had force-landed just off the beach and was salvaged after it was dragged onto the beach, so it wouldnt be one out in the water. Nature-based crafts enthuse Stanhoe WI members. Whos remains and war commissions grave is at Wymeswold cemetery Photo Aircraft Crew Member [s] (Assignment) In alphabetic order Crew Crashed Actual Type M a p Cemetery. Required fields are marked *. Im afraid I dont know Stonehouse Road very well. Halifax DT581, Hoar Side Moor, Todmorden. Frederick Fraser. Hello everybody, I was on my way to abersoch yesterday and out of the car window I saw something that looked like a p51d or a spitfire mk9 that had crashed in a small building (like a kind of brick shed. The Snake Pass can be found in the Peak District, along the A57 main road that runs from Ladybower Reservoir to Glossop. Maybe someone on here can help? The man is holding up part of the tail section. I know that Uncle Arthur is buried in Holy Cross Churchyard in Taibach Port Talbot, his birthplace, with his mother and father. Dad lived in Beldam Haw in the 1930s and 40s, firstly in no. Other areas of the UK. Myself and a colleague have been metal detecting at Park Farm Hoxne for 15 years, in the early days we unearthed numerous fragments from the crashed aircraft, also included were many complete,bent and broken rounds of admonition. Note that source, the 457th Bomb Group Association, mentions there being 4 survivors not 3. P-47 Thunderbolt 41-6538. My uncle (SHC Thrower) was killed 16/11/1943 when Wellington Mk 1c, DV918, from 21 Operational Training Unit took off from RAF Enstone at 2010 to carry out a training exercise. It looks like your uncle was the pilot of Lancaster ME323 which was shot down at eight minutes past one on the morning of 4 March 1945. Thank you. Aircrew members who died were: F/O Thomas James Michael Nash (Pilot), P/O James Cunningham Porteous, W/O Peter Alfred Merrall and Flt/Sgt. Derek Scaless decorations raise money for charity. I have investigated the crash files but I am unable to find any information concerning this particular crash. 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. Flying to Denmark for first time in April. Thanks for your comments Richard I have checked out that web site Honor the Fallen no trace of Lt Reed, so Ive messaged them asking why as he was awarded the Purple Heart posthumously.Saw your Shazam site, any particular reason you are researching the Costessy crash? Your memory of the exact spot is interesting, but I have not been able to find any air crashes at Holmes Chapel from around that time. Please does anyone have information concerning the aircraft crash in wetheringsett approx 1944. Pilot Warrant Oficer W L McGowan and all crew were ok. See fuller details in Where the Lysanders Were .. (the story of Sawbridgeworths airfields) by Paul A Doyle, ISBN 0 9525624 0 5, Trying to find the exact site of crash landing of Lancaster R5905 24/9/42 near madum Denmark? Advanced Landing Grounds on Romney Marsh and shooting the flying bombs down over the sea. hello looking for information on allied aircraft which crashed in village of Hallot in France at the end of July 1944 my farther died and two others were wounded trying to rescue the crew, they ran into a mine field, Be nice to know if the crew survived and what aircraft it was. Hope this answers your immediate questions and provides a basis for further research. I love being able to locate the pieces of the puzzle and watch the picture form. Have you contacted the Neatishead Museum in Norfolk? For the Achterhoek region, the AVOG's Crash Museum at Lievelde, The Netherlands, might be a source of information. The other plane they crashed into also plunged into the lake; however . 1. His name is listed in the GPC book. Crash Sites Messerschmitt Bf 110. Sorry I cannot help Richard Storr but I am replying as I live in Walcott on North Norfolk coast and as local historian I researched the crash at 1329hrs on Sat 29th April 1944 of a B24 at Walcott the pilot 2nd Lt John Warner REED aged 26 was killed, all of the crew of 9 bailed out and survived. Looked at the 1944 Chorley bible there is no record of an air crash near Stowmarket on 27/8/44 nor a few days either side of 27th. Im very careful when I dig . A Plane Crash in Maidstone. Regarding photos of crash sites there ought to be a central source but I understand that the official pictures of the Shazam crash have been lost and this may have happened to many others. I have some further information that you may, or indeed may not already have. Where might I find that info? Maybe. Approximate location, date such as time of year, the name of the pilot, anything from memory such as stories you heard from your father or other family anything like that could help enormously. Ive gone through what lists I have (which are far from being complete), looked through Eyes of the Night by Bamford & Collier (the book provides a lot of detail about RAF Cranage) and have looked up the air crashes listed on my page about RAF Cranage. Next up 2 RAF fighters from the same campaign 1940. Looking for information on Sergeant Walter Thompson service number 1066764 died 5th June 1942 buried in Bergen General Cemetery. Superfortress 44-61999 Over-Exposed! air crash site on Bleaklow, Superfortress RB-29A 44-61999 Over-Exposed! (sometimes called the Bleaklow Bomber), http://aircrewremembrancesociety.co.uk/styled-5/styled-10/styled-269/index.html, https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C16997728, Society for Lincolnshire History & Archaeology, http://www.fredtrendle.de/images/pdf/Buchauszug-Februar-1944-Nacht.pdf, http://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/details.php?uniq=Z9471, All photos and text are aircrashsites.co.uk unless otherwise stated. Heavy parts of the plane were said to be deeply embedded in the ground and were not recovered. I am sure every USAAF crash site was photographed. Barry. (Donald something) Your uncle is mentioned in the reference to ME323 under the British losses section. I have certainly found a lot of aluminium pieces scattered all over the field. Thank you Dave Stubley is one of hundreds of men and women across Britain who spend their free time finding out where the planes crashed, then digging them up. I am researching Shazam on behalf of the Costessey Memories Group which is attached to the Costessey general library. I feel inspired now to visit the crash site and add it to these pages. During the war a stricken plane was coming in to land at Parham Suffolk and crashed just short of the runway. They were returning from an attack on Germany (Cologne?) 36 then no. Michelle. Looking for the exact location of RAF 78 SQN Halifax BIII MZ311 which crashed on Cleeve Hill in a quarry 4 miles NE of Cheltenham, Gloucester in the early hours of 26 August 1944 after a mining sortie off the French Coast. But I cannot find a list of the crew. We often played in the Spitfire that was left in one of the hangars at Hooton. The Lost King (12A) (Drama/History) is showing in Stanhoe on Friday 27 January at 7.30 pm. My family history research had hit a brickwall but within the last few days (April 2016), a stroke of luck and a report in national newspapers of 24.03.1939 identified a RAF plane crash just before WW2 on 23.03.1939. I remember the exceedingly brave firemen breaking into the blazing fuselarge armed with axes in an attempt to save there colleagues. Hi Richard, Thanks for your efforts much appreciated, I was a police officer in the Cambridge area which covered Madingly [ retired 1995 ] and I spent many duties on Madingly Day, and used to call in at various times,very impressive place. Two small ceremonies at the two sites where ten of the Brits were killed. Early next month, the family of our B17s tailgunner will be getting their historic cartridge, in a cheery ceremony at the USAF Academy in Colorado Springs. 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. Tantalisingly I was offer info and pics from a local but they never materialised after the death of the locals brother. Remains of a machine gun from Messerschmitt Bf 109 Werknummer 7463, shot down by anti-aircraft fire on 7 February 1942. One was called Losses of the US 8th and 9th Airforces Volume 5 April 1944 to June 1944 written by Stan D Bishop.It may be worth checking to see if the crash of Alfred 11 is recorded. 122 . Richard. Hi can anyone give me information on Russell Charles Denny ? Im sorry that I do not have more information to go with this story. I visited the Forum in Norwich on Saturday and made some enquiries about the crash at Walcot but without any success. During WW2 my aunt had had a colleague in the Day Nursery in Orpington, called Walton, whose father had the corn merchant business in Halstead. Have left a previous message which have all been sorted, however need any info re a B17 which crashed off the North Norfolk coast at Walcott-on-Sea, during the WW2. 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). The inquest heard Palmer, who researches crash sites from the second world war, contacted police at 10am on 26 June last year. Click and drag to move the map around. Thats recently been made into the memorial mentioned above. I have been searching for an aircraft crash that occurred in 1943-4 in Holmes Chapel (Church Hulme, Cheshire. Regards Richard. It also suggests to me that there is no full and formal documentation of the crash, despite the loss of rather valuable aircrew. What a coincidence that you remember him. Here, a party from 49 MU drags sections of a crashed aircraft across a Kent hop field. A new map that plots every German air raid on the UK during World War Two has been released online. David White. So many names from the past! Part of the hangar . Looking for information for a crashed plane in the area of stocking farm mowacre hill Beaumont leys, in Leicester, what I have to go on is that it was a Wellington with American crew around about April 1942 theres always been rumours of a crash but no evidence Ive seen, hoping to share the details with a local site to put rumours to rest, any help be appreciated thanks. A Blackburn Botha Mk1 crashed 1.5 miles North of Hooton Park Cheshire. Do you live in this area now? Originally from N.Ireland, age 20 years. if so I would like to know your source as I do not have a pic of my site despite many enqs,thanks. I forgot precisely where it was but if you know what I mean please let me know. Yorkshire Air Museum picked up the rear fuselage from here. I am told it was a Armstrong whitly but can find no colabaration. II / # LL701 / Operation Schweinfurt / Ursache unbekannt / Absturz in die Nordsee / Flight Lieutenant James Clement Hornby / 7 vermisst. Great memories of playing in the Spitfire at Hooton. There is a chance Leicester Mercury may have details in their archieves. As is often the case, we left it too late to check out what he was saying. My wife and I travelled to Denmark in 2018 and I found the field where my dad crashed, the farm where they sheltered for the night and the Ulfborg jail where they were taken after capture. Stay in touch. Hi again Roger Through a Danish WW2 history buff I found the location of the farmers field where the crew crash landed. Hi Ian, thank you for the prompt reply. I have found a report in Jim Jones Personal history of RAF Harwell which I think my be this accidentmarch 11th Wellington X3874 observed by schoolboys to roll over on its back 600feet over Didcot and spiral down, it crashed and burnt outin Fleet meadow.Its said the pilot was practising single engine flying when he got into trouble the accident was thought to be 1942 but not sure. I am 85 years old and I have a vivid memory of a spitfires or huracane crashing at Heanor Derbyshire in a farmyard .I cant find anything locally can you help? 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. P-47D Thunderbolt 42-22758 crash site on Pendle Hill. Good of you to provide the crew details. If you have any photos, it would be good to add them here. USAAF B17 42-31581 at Edgworth, Lancashire. 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