ww2 plane crash sites map kent

I moved from Norwich in 1964 although I have been going back on a regular basis as most of my remaining family and some friends live there. WW2 Allied Aircraft Crashes in The Netherlands, North Sea & English Channel. Crashed April 21 1943 near Elmley Lovett, Worcestershire. Thanks Richard will make enqs re the book you mention. My dad cycled from Great Glemham and my mum cycled from Saxmundham and that is how they met. Seattle Times staff reporter. F/Lt. 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. American plane coming into mendlesham airfield was shot down by following German plane. Or maybe as a general enquiry, ask someone here at the Coroners Society. Do you knowis Park Farm an actual farm, a park, or a village? Mary Packman,s daughter was my Grandma,Janet Towler who studied at Homerton College,Cambridge, and died in 1966 in a house in Stonehouse Road, Halstead. If you were to post your query in the general forum on RAF Commands website, I am sure someone there will help you. Before that they were at oakdene on Rushmore Hill,Knockholt. Do you know if there was more than one plane that went down there? Ian. By: Keith - 4th September 2008 at 06:00 I'm going on holliday soon in Allhallows-on-Sea and would like to visit a few crash sites in or around Kent, where i could have a look around and maybe even a bit of metal detecting without trespassing or bothering anyone. Crash Sites Messerschmitt Bf 110. Ian. Service personnel from Marham are ready to take part in a controlled mini excavation as part of their development. Richard Storr, Thanks Richard for your time and efforts..please keep me informed. They were both fencing/wood contractors. Nachtjagdgeschwader 3, was the last Axis aircraft to crash on British soil during World War II. This question has been asked on-line before (not at this site) but I have not seen a response or answer. . Thanks for taking the time to respond to my initial inquiry. Crashed Great Dunmow En route to RAF Witchford. View all planes linked to locations in Scotland Parts of the plane fell in the vicinity of the field at Glatton. My assumption is that the crash must have occurred the same day, but that may be wrong. The weather was very thundery which brought down several aircraft including 42-31038, also from 306BG, which came down nr. https://indexarticles.com/newspaper-collection/sunday-herald-the/wartime-mystery-to-rise-from-the-deep/. The plaque is by the entrance to Mill Farm at 514347.8N, 13442.1W and reads: In Memory Of Mostly concerned with the site of the pilot who died, Lt. Earl H. Bond, Did you find out about crash site?never heard of this onepaul. 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. This turned out to be a mistake, because Maidstone found itself in the middle of what the RAF referred to as 'Hellfire Alley': the route followed by the German bombers flying to London. NEW KENT This Thursday marks the 71st anniversary of one of the most tragic, yet mysterious plane crashes in New Kent County history. 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. Both Halstead pubs shut. over the years think of them when i walk that way . RAF Crash Sites 1942 - 1945. This is the first time I have visited this site. The official report states ''This a/c No.3 in a tail chase was seen to commence to pull out from a dive. Do you know of an aircrash or have a photograph of which I witnessed as a 4 year old at Cairnbulg It occured at the beginning of the aerodrome near where we were staying about 1944 I think it was a spitfire and the trainee pilot had come in too low and his rear wheel caught on the railway fence. regional map; local map around dove stone reservoir; landowners' map; map showing position of the dove stone - 1840; map footpaths at dove stone before and after 1990; map of aircraft crash sites; map of climbing areas; map of permitted cycling routes; recreation & access. Roger. I will let you know when I have been to the Forum. Crash Sites Bell P-39 Airacobra. Im trying to put together a memorial frame for him. I will take a look but its not my neck of the woods really. It was raining hard that night. P/O A.G.Thomas KIA, F/S T.McCaffray KIA, F/S E.L.Horstmann RAAF KIA, F/S W.N.Pridmore RAAF KIA, F/S G.E.Davis RAAF KIA, F/S A.Cryer RAAF KIA, F/S A.H.Weston RAAF KIA.. Below; photo from the 457 Bomb Group Association showing some of the wreckage. 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. Wasnt Halstead Place owned/built by Barnaby Atkins? Would any one have any info on a B-17 that came down and crashed landed near curry wood Halstead kent. Anyone have any details? I believe it crashed shortly after take off near Barningham, UK. David AP, remember as a lad finding a canopy of either a spitfire or hurricane on spare land between clifton,the irwell and agecroft collery in manchester,never did find out which it was and i think its been dug up 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. Remains of a machine gun from Messerschmitt Bf 109 Werknummer 7463, shot down by anti-aircraft fire on 7 February 1942. It seems that my intuition led me to write the correct person after all. Very happy to share it with you if you wanted it? Your uncle is mentioned in the reference to ME323 under the British losses section. Reg Ds827 Feb/5/1944 Thanks for your replyI obtained all my pics and info from web site B24.net a very good site. This has taken nearly 18 months and was a challenge to say the least compared to the other German crash in the Parish. NOT the B24 that crashed on Freckleton school near what is now Bae Warton. 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. They had a database that the public could play with (via a simplified screen and keyboard) the last time I went a few years ago, and you could look up every pretty well every known enemy bomb that had dropped and caused damage during the war. Can anyone tell me which was the airfield in question (Boscombe Down, Ibsley?) At the last minute Marham hearing an intruder was in the area turned off the landing lights. Other areas of the UK. Dad used to talk frequently about the Packmans but I cannot recall why, Im assuming some of your family also lived in Halstead? Hi David, I will take a look when get chance (busy this weekend) but will get back to you in a couple of days, see if I can find anything that might jog your memory! Thanks. Thanks to former Stanhoe resident Arthur Walker for most of the information on these crash sites. 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! I currently have your uncles flying log book and other bits in my collection. 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). Richard. Derek Scaless decorations raise money for charity. 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. Crew were, Hailey, Sindrey, Barton and Surtees all RAFVR 218 (Gold Coast) Sdn. 1. Maybe they were Canadian! 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. what aircraft it was and if the crew survived. The bombers had been recalled due to bad weather but 42-97236 while climbing into formation, encountered a heavy downdraft and the plane went into a dive. I would really like to see newspaper or local archival accounts. Date of crash/deaths is 29 April 1943. Hi Sandy, Following the Snake Pass, the hike up to the plane wreckage is around 2 miles (3.2km). 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. My Father William George Baker. Thanks Ian. All military aircraft crash sites in the United Kingdom, its territorial waters, or British aircraft in international waters, are controlled by the Protection of Military Remains Act 1986. . Hi, I was wondering if you had received any more info regarding Lancaster ED548 PH-X. Reg # Accident date Aircraft type . http://www.fredtrendle.de/images/pdf/Buchauszug-Februar-1944-Nacht.pdf (Page 213). My brother and I visited a plane crash site one evening in 1942. RAF Glatton is about 6 miles south of the town of Peterborough. 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. Hoping to help Dutch son of Ceess best friend from those days. Hello, one site after another has led me here. Thanks. I visited madingly on the 20th May and had a chat with the Superintendent there. The pilot was in turn shot down over the channel but was picked up off the German coast. The notes with each map have been prepared by Alan and Clive The six maps are dated as follows. Click the Satellite button for an aerial view. Searching for accurate location of Mitchell crash 30 August 1944 near Peper Harrow/Shackleford, not far from Godalming Surrey. Pilot Fl.Lt. It was with the 457th Bomb Group and was on a bombing raid to Merseberg near Leipzig in Germany on 21 April 1944, probably to attack the oil refinery there. A V2 rocket landed in Parmiter Street, Bethnal Greenon 7th February 1945..I was 6 at the time and at Mowlem Street School..I remember the windows being blasted in and my house being bombed..My niece was killed in this raid and my Dad who was Mayor of Bethnal Green at this time was brought home from work . 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. Anything would be most appreciated. Each time we retrieved these items they were handed to the landowner who was aware of the crash site. 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. Print map. When reaching the British coast however, Hubbard no longer was able to keep his a/c in the air any longer and ordened his crew to bail out as quick as possible. Thanks, He was driving an open-topped Mercedes & was struck on the head by a gas bottle, whether full or empty is not recorded. This was apparently a bullseye sortie that went badly wrong. See details: See map: N58437. Sgt John P. Medica, tail gunner, survived. Finally pinned down KG76 Dornier Do17 F1+AT (15 Sep 1940) crash location and snaps taken. I live approximately a mile from where the Lancaster your uncle was flying crashed. There was a lot of debris scattered around the site and we were prevented from getting any closer to the wreckage owing to a police cordon. google location map; maps. I know that it crashed close to a Canadian Army vehicle park which I have since found. Princess Risborough. Im afraid I have nothing on that one Roger, maybe someone else has? A family member recently received a letter from the Cambridge Cemetery. Aviation experts in Spitfire hunt. The database has information on over 300,000 sites around the world. I remember the exceedingly brave firemen breaking into the blazing fuselarge armed with axes in an attempt to save there colleagues. Home; Map of crashes; List by state; About; Washington fatal crashes (1183) View all crashes on a map. Lt Joseph J. Peacock, navigator, killed 1. 26 April 2011. I would appreciate any information you have on John, 44 squadron or Lamsdorf. I havent much info, but do you have a copy of Michael J Hursts book on Lake District air crashes? heres the link. How common were these losses in training exercises? Ten aircrew died, including my uncle. Search within these images: Poppy wreaths marking a WW2 bomber crash site by Philip Jeffrey. Maybe someone on here can help? Hi can anyone give me information on Russell Charles Denny ? I understand research has shown that where the impact caused severe trauma to the bodies of the crew, then recovery crews were instructed just to gather sufficient body parts to enable a funeral to take place (around 9 lbs apparently). On October 17th 1940 a wellington bomber returning from a raid on the Kiel canal ran out of fuel. Hi Steve, I have looked in the books I own but can find no reference to it. The village of Black Bourton was the scene, 76 years ago when tragically, returning from missions, Albemarle V1782 overshot the runway at RAF Brize Norton, crashing and burning out in a field on Mill Farm, with the loss of life of all five crew. And heard talk of Douglas Blundell, and the people who lived at Colgates. I found what looks like a latch handle that has a plastic grommit attached, and the grommit has Wellington Regd moulded into it. Hi Derek, thank you for your enquiry. I remember being interviewed by an RAF Officer who was interested that the Albemarle cast off the tow rope before falling out of the sky, thus saving the Waco. Hi, do you have any information on any B17s from the 95th bomb Group, I am a committee member from this group and would like to research any information you have? There is a link to the wikipedia page about this raid below. Jun 11, 2014 at 5:00 am. 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. A small plane that took off from Auburn crashed Saturday into a storage facility in Kent . Do you know what they did with them? One B17 certainly crashed at Home Farm Hoxne. The aircraft crashed ten minutes later in the circuit of Enstone airfield, at Hookerswell Farm on south-east side of Little Tew. My dad has been talking about the crash that occurred at Curry Wood as he lived in Halstead and remembers it occurring. A Plane Crash in Maidstone. I saw a picture of the headstone of his grave on findagrave.com. That is fantastic info!! Bill. The Benzett ALG airstrip was established in 1943 and first used by Spitfire IX's of No.122 Squadron followed by squadrons to combat flying . Ian, Hi [1] [2] The crash killed 14 of 15 passengers and crew, including Prince George, Duke of Kent, who was on duty . 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