Hover over a marker for more information. They were visiting the factory where the Bombers were made but on takeoff the Bomber just touched the top of some trees and crashed. Will also have a think about where else you might be able to find the information you need. school Now. Required fields are marked *. Michelle. During the war a stricken plane was coming in to land at Parham Suffolk and crashed just short of the runway. 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 is titled I Join The Fray. 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! TWA Flight 260 Crash Site Albuquerque, New Mexico. Runway is approx 1km south east of that point. See details: See map: N58437. Memorial Crash 03-11-1944 Oosterhout. Regards Levi Wilson. One other thing, in doing a basic computer search for the crash site, Park Farm, Hoxne, Suffolk, I was unable to find it. Sgt Leroy L. Logan, engineer / upper turret gunner, killed 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. Hurst says that a machine gun was found at the site in 1973. Through a Danish WW2 history buff I found the location of the farmers field where the crew crash landed. USAAF B17 42-31581 at Edgworth, Lancashire. Reg Ds827 Feb/5/1944 http://www.rafcommands.com/database/serials/details.php?uniq=Z9471. It is part of the only complete Halifax Mk3. Flights MZ633 and N1687 collided mid air during unauthorised flying formation. Thank you, John. Do you knowis Park Farm an actual farm, a park, or a village? Does anyone know about this crash??? The plane that crashed in Bradley International Airport in Connecticut today was a restored WWII-era Boeing B-17, a heavy bomber plane used mostly in Germany and Western Europe. 1. I have been to the Aviation Archaeology web site mentioned and will probably order the crash report. Ian. 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? I visited madingly on the 20th May and had a chat with the Superintendent there. Crew were, Hailey, Sindrey, Barton and Surtees all RAFVR 218 (Gold Coast) Sdn. Ive also spoken with the daughter of John Vardy so it looks like three families of the original crew are now joined up and in contact, which is great news. http://www.fredtrendle.de/images/pdf/Buchauszug-Februar-1944-Nacht.pdf (Page 213). Ian, hi steve Just come across your query about Robert Leonard Double. Apparently it crashed just North of the Main Railway line to the east of Westbury Station Not far off the Ham road. By: Pete Truman - 4th January 2006 at 09:28 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00 The imperial war museum in London may be able to help. As is often the case, we left it too late to check out what he was saying. I am contacting you as I am currently working on a WWII series and would love to ask you some specific questions about plane crashes from the US Eighth air force. Thanks so much for your email. This was apparently a bullseye sortie that went badly wrong. Sorry, I have not been able to identify this crash, Im afraid. Richard. Without sounding sarcastic a name and possible sqn would be helpful. Thanks. 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. Jun 11, 2014 at 5:00 am. My stepmother lived in Stud Farm opposite St Margarets and, apart from a couple of long standing families in Church Road, dont remember much beyond that. To Sarah Rushen When you have time, look at http://www.thanksgivingfield.org and open up the Uplifting Guide and Mission 115Z PDFs. People who have read it found it quite amusing. Martin here. who were killed near this site 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. Other times such the as the request about the P-47 above searches all end up pointing to the same very limited resource. While there are several ways to get to the crash site, the easiest is via the Snake Pass walk. Wasnt Halstead Place owned/built by Barnaby Atkins? This may be the same crash. Or you could ask at the Holmes Chapel local history group or put a post on the RAF Commands Forum; the group members there may be able to help? They recently published an article about a Lancaster that crashed at Scraptoft. Does anyone know anything about a 409th Bomb Squadron, 93rd Bomb Group (Heavy)B-24H-25-FO Liberator Gypsy Queen Serial# 42-95024 possibly crashed on the afternoon of 5 November 1944 at Shipmeadow, Suffolk (between Beccles and Bungay. I have since found out that Uncle Bills accident was on 8t h Oct 1941 he was in 15 OTU. There are many WW2 crash sites around the UK, mostly on the East Coast and now part of farmland. Ian, Hi I will take a look but its not my neck of the woods really. 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. Jonathan. Ian. The result was that the Albemarles port wing stalled and she dived vertically into the ground. Use the slider or your mouse scroll wheel to zoom in and out. We have reached out to the engineers family son who has stories to tell of that fated flight which his father relayed to him. Interesting to read that Sandy. They were returning from an attack on Germany (Cologne?) My mother used to work there in the 1950s and 60s. 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. I dont know of that one sorry, but maybe someone else on here might be able to provide some infor for you. Cannot find any records relating to the crash. 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. (Photo . Crash Sites Messerschmitt Bf 110. American plane coming into mendlesham airfield was shot down by following German plane. I am so grateful that Im nearly at a loss for words. In fact my grandad had a wood yard at the bottom of the hill and dad had another yard behind Lamberhurst House at the top of the hill. 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. WW2 Allied Aircraft Crashes in The Netherlands, North Sea & English Channel. Both Halstead pubs shut. At the last minute Marham hearing an intruder was in the area turned off the landing lights. My ancestor Sarah Atkins is no known relative of the Burnaby Atkinses who have a large memorial tombslab in the churchyard. Ian, Ian I have contacted the LA and have a copy of FE Kraemers death certificate as a starting point but further investigation concluded that there was not a coroners report. Plane crash map Locate crash sites, wreckage and more. Going back to the air crash, dad used to talk about growing up in the war years, I think our children would be taken away from us if we allowed them to do some of the things he and his friends got up to!! Adice greatly appreciated. Crash Sites Curtiss C-46 Commando. Note that source, the 457th Bomb Group Association, mentions there being 4 survivors not 3. courtesy of Kirk Dietz. I love being able to locate the pieces of the puzzle and watch the picture form. No records are available. If you have any photos, it would be good to add them here. Experiments were carried out including an unsuccessful attempt to launch a fighter aircraft from a non-rigid balloon. 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. I think he crashed in chorley . 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. The plane landed into units at a storage facility in Kent. Hi i am looking for information about a aircraft accident ( service record) at netheravon on the 17/11/1942 . Could you please get in contact? The wreckage remains as a memorial. I read 14 killed and Id like to know if it included my great uncle Mathew Vinkovich. August 21, 2016 at 11:03 pm. As I can recall the accident( I was 5 years old at the time) I thought it would be appropriate to ensure that the sacrifice made by the 10 aircrew should not be forgotten. 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. Hi, I am a metal detectorist in Whetstone, Leicester. Thanks for your visit and comment Mike. I will check the B24 web site and see what I can find. 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. 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. Does anybody know of any record of a B17 stationed at Parham crashing near Framlington Castle? But if I find anything I will let you know. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. 2nd Lt Edward T. Dunne Co-Pilot My Uncle and Aunt, Geoffrey and Mollie Pain, and I lived at Edgehill Stonehouse Road,Halstead, 1954 1968. But there is more out there about this if you want to look for it. A researcher, @clapos (his internet forum and twitter alias, as he has asked www.ww2wrecks.com not to reveal his real name), has done a thorough research and located on Google Earth the exact locations of dozens of WW2 aircraft wrecks all over the Globe, both Allied, as well as Axis ones. 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. It looks very different nowadays. Service personnel from Marham are ready to take part in a controlled mini excavation as part of their development. Ian. Use our interactive map to find out where. Appledram Arlington (Hailsham) Ashdown Forest . B17 Buttercup 306th Bomb Group based at Thurleigh crashed Latchford Oxon Nov 13th 1943, no survivors of 10 crew (all names known). He was a SSGT in the 748 USAAF Bomb Squadron. Thank you They might assist you in finding more information. Use the slider or your mouse scroll wheelto zoom in and out. On Facebook.com/ukthanksgivingfield has some additions. Print map. You state you have a fair amount of material re your crash would that include a pic of the crash site ? The parents of the crew had a wooden church built on the crash site. Does anyone have any info on the crash of Liberator B24 j Shazam at Carrs Wood Costessey Norfolk on 7th March 1945. The Albemarle/Waco combi took off from Keevil. Thank you again. One B17 certainly crashed at Home Farm Hoxne. Or maybe as a general enquiry, ask someone here at the Coroners Society. Historic England is working with a number of HERs and volunteer groups to record the accurate locations of crash sites. Hi Roger I worked at Glemham House (not Hall) for Lord and Lady Cranbroke and if I recall correctly there is a propellor blade embedded in the ground at the site where a plane crashed as a memorial ( On private land just inside the perimeter wall beside New Road) approx grid reference TM 34193 61657. 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