Can anyone help please?
My cousin told me of a “Spitfire2? that came down just missing the roofs of some old cottages and taking out the top of an oak tree to crash land in a field [Ngr SU793621] where it promptly burnt out with ammo exploding. He witnessed the crash as a young lad of about 10 and ran to the site with other lads and made a futile attempt to pull the pilot out.
My father told me a similar story of a Mosquito crashing at the same site which he witnessed and recalled the ammo exploding .
A similar recollection came from an old friend [long deceased] of a Mitchell circling over the Finchampstead/Eversley border on fire when he saw some crew bale out and fall with no parachute landing in a field [NGR SU800633].
Dates unknown, but RAF Hartford Bridge [Blackbushe] the destination/departure site.
Has anyone any more information on these events?
Thanks
By: Bazza333 - 3rd March 2013 at 20:15
BZ220 or BE220??? Lesson for today – don’t try and read small print following eye surgery 🙁
By: daveg4otu - 3rd March 2013 at 11:23
I also have these two in the Eversley vicinity…..
25-02-42 W8798 Master III,1FTS,flew into ground, Eversley.
24-05-44 BZ325 Boston IIIA,cr/forced landing 2 miles NE Eversley
By: farnboroughrob - 3rd March 2013 at 09:49
The Mitchell is probably Boston BZ220 13/9/43 – Engine caught fire; wing hit tree in forced landing, overturned ½ mile East of Everley, Hants. F/Lt T.D.B. BLAKE , F/O F.W. EASTON and Sgt A.H. LACEY .
Spitfire may be PA902 of 16 sqn on 28/3/44 ‘engine failed while in circuit not fatal’.
Not sure of the Mosquito as the accidents I know of were on airfield. Of course it could have been from a non based squadron. Will dig a little more later.
Rob
By: Bazza333 - 2nd March 2013 at 21:29
Could the Mitchell have been a Boston…….13/9/43 BE220 came down just east of Eversley with an engine fire. That makes it almost the same location.
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March 2, 2013 at 1:21 pm