Lancaster crash Croydon
...Further to this incident - my father was on duty at Croydon that night
as an Air Ministry policeman and witnessed the Lancasters attempts to land
- It had been badly shot up with flak damage over enemy territory and was attempting to land at Croydon but probably had to overshoot - probably
realising that Croydon was too small - We lived in the next road parrallel
with Lavander - Milton Rd and my father feared it had crashed onto or
near our house and so rushed back to Wallington in the early hours - We were asleep in the Anderson shelter at the time - and sadly we were
taken out to view the Lancasters funeral pyre.
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