Sorry Tim, no scanner, but herewith a verbatim copy of the East Anglian Daily Times report:

TWO JET PILOTS DIE IN CRASH
Workers’ Near Escape in Dual Tragedy

Two farm workers loading sugar beet in a field on Mr. Peter Strutt’s estate at Bentley Hall Park yesterday narrowly escaped death when two American jet fighter ‘planes, which had collided in the air, whistled over their heads and crashed in flames. The ‘planes landed side by side and exploded and both pilots were killed. They were based at Wethersfield. The farm workers, Albert Peacock (25) and William Stammers (50), saw the ‘planes disappear into the fog and then blow up. Mr. R. Kembell, of Bentley, told a reporter: “Wreckage was strewn over a quarter of a mile about a hundred yards from the hall. The ‘planes were smashed to smithereens, just seven or eight little burning heaps in the two fields.” Trees and bushes were set alight. Farm workers were on the scene seconds after the crash. Mr. J. S. Dunn, who farms Bentley Hall, led them in preventing the spread of the fire. United States Air Force and R.A.F. crash tenders, as well as water tenders from Ipswich Fire Brigade, went to the scene.

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