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chicken george



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poor brave souls

There is a church memorial in my village tommorrow. for this bomber crew who crashed about 800 metres from my house.

Its nice to see they arnt forgotten

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I tried to find a crashed Halifax up in Kielder a few weeks back but as we got further up the hill the snow was still lying and the wreck was buried, we knew we where in the right spot as we had a GPS but the snow obliterated it Sad

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I grew up in Snaith, East Yorkshire. There was an airfield nearby. It has a nice memorial garden there. The airfield had two claim to fames, Joe Poh was stationed there, he was shot for his part in the great escape. The airfield was also home to the most severely damaged bomber to return from an operation. The aircraft collided with another bomber resulting in a large part of the forward lower fuselage being destroyed taking the navigator and bomb aimer with it.

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chicken george



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my mate and his dad dug up crashed halifax in his field about 20 years ago, many parts were salvaged and used for restoraton projects, he still has an engine anda few others bits.
full permision was sort before digging

Ive seen the new village plaque today whilst helping set up for tommorrow, looks good Thumbs Up At work
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Wow, interesting stuff.

There is a wreck of a Halifax near us but it's in a tidal creek. Merlin's are still there as is a lot of ammo destine for the French resistance. it was on a "SOE" mission so we are told and does not show up on many records.

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Lest we forget the hitherto overlooked men of Bomber Command. Bow down

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not merlins great big rotary engines. At work
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Vulture engines, they look like a rotary design, later Halifax bombers had Merlin engines fitted.
Many of them around, just not easy to find when sinking into the peat and covered in snow.

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Just a nomenclature thing...
Rotary= Censored . As in NSU Ro80 and Mazda RX7 and 8 - the board auto-censor strikes.
Radial=Aeroplanes.

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defiantly radials ive inspected the engine closely, , it will probably be there tomorrow , it on a trailer for showing off At work
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Yes, this is one of the later models with the Rolls merlin engines.

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Actually I'll correct myself. The term Rotary is correct in connection with aero engines where the cylinders rotate and the crankshaft is fixed to the airframe.

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J T wrote:
Wow, interesting stuff.

There is a wreck of a Halifax near us but it's in a tidal creek. Merlin's are still there as is a lot of ammo destine for the French resistance. it was on a "SOE" mission so we are told and does not show up on many records.


This plane could have been with 138 Squadron, a special duties unit operating out of Tempsford http://www.tempsford-squadrons.info/ who used Whitley's, Lysander's,Halifax and later on Stirling's and were flying Lincoln's when they were disbanded in August 1950.
My uncle Bob (Sgt W. C. Evans was a Dispatcher flying in Whitley Serial No. T.4166 and was lost on 27/28 March 1943 returning from "Operation Watercress" which was to drop Dutch Agents near to Steenwijk.
The MOD records surmise that the plane came down in the sea and only one body was recovered.

The ironic part of all this is that my Uncle volunteered to go on this operation as a stand-in for a fellow air craftsman who was sick.

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The plane near CG will be an early Halifax with Rolls Royce Vulture engine, this was a 16 cylinder engine, basically four, six cylinder engines mounted radially in a X24 configuration around a common crankshaft, then later the Merlin engine was then fitted which was a V12 unit.

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the engine dug out of the field look like this only some what more mangled, they where very deep http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Hercules At work
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