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... Following with a similar thread - There must be several sites throughout the UK where WW2 aircraft have come to grief and their crews perished - with little or nothing to mark the location of these tragedies.
There is at least one such site locally where a badly flak damaged Lancaster returning from a raid overshot the airfield and demolished two
terraced houses in a nearby town. The houses were rebuilt long ago but I have often wondered if the present occupants ever knew anythIng of the tragic circumstances concerning the property they now occupy.
I would have thought that it was down to the local authority to have something along the lines of a blue plaque put in place at the very least !
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There is at least one such site locally where a badly flak damaged Lancaster returning from a raid overshot the airfield and demolished two
terraced houses in a nearby town. The houses were rebuilt long ago but I have often wondered if the present occupants ever knew anythIng of the tragic circumstances concerning the property they now occupy.
I would have thought that it was down to the local authority to have something along the lines of a blue plaque put in place at the very least !
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Too true about Blue Plaques; on a slightly different note I raised this point with the current owners of Dunsfold Aerodrome, Surrey.
The ( what was ) a lovely old cottage just inside the Compasses Gate was inhabited by among others, Neville Duke who mentions it in his book 'Test Pilot' covering his prototype Hunter days, and Duncan Simpson.
It has fallen into disrepair, and the place is no longer open to the public - the last occupant I knew of the cottage was a bar steward in absolutely every sense !
Back to Lost Bombers, there are so many I don't know where to start; I was told of a Lancaster's wings ( so presumably it went in virtually level ) being discovered by a local farmer's hand near Midhurst, West Sussex.
This chap is no B'S. Type, but then again no aircraft enthusiast, so I don't know who told him it was a Lanc'...
It's into slightly rising ground, so one can only hope they got out; any clues please as to how to find more ?
I doubt a request to search this now very valuable land would get a good response, unless I had some proof.
I'm not really thinking of a 'dig' - sounds like the plough will have done the rest of the damage - but knowledge of those involved would be terrific, ( if a war grave things might move on ) and I'm sure then a plaque at least would be possible nearby within public view.
The ( what was ) a lovely old cottage just inside the Compasses Gate was inhabited by among others, Neville Duke who mentions it in his book 'Test Pilot' covering his prototype Hunter days, and Duncan Simpson.
It has fallen into disrepair, and the place is no longer open to the public - the last occupant I knew of the cottage was a bar steward in absolutely every sense !
Back to Lost Bombers, there are so many I don't know where to start; I was told of a Lancaster's wings ( so presumably it went in virtually level ) being discovered by a local farmer's hand near Midhurst, West Sussex.
This chap is no B'S. Type, but then again no aircraft enthusiast, so I don't know who told him it was a Lanc'...
It's into slightly rising ground, so one can only hope they got out; any clues please as to how to find more ?
I doubt a request to search this now very valuable land would get a good response, unless I had some proof.
I'm not really thinking of a 'dig' - sounds like the plough will have done the rest of the damage - but knowledge of those involved would be terrific, ( if a war grave things might move on ) and I'm sure then a plaque at least would be possible nearby within public view.
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