Ooh I also forgot to mention, usually police reports were filed when an accident occurred in the area, if you cant narrow them down, try searching the Public Record Office for old police reports, this should defiantly narrow the aircraft’s nationality down and also supply a date.

Will

No problem at all, you could possibly be correct that they where RAF mustangs. Did you go to the standard search feature on the site?, i tried that and it did not bring up anything. If you go to this page here: http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/src/AFrptsMO.htm

It has links to the databases by month and year, there are countless P-51 accidents listed within your vicinity, it will just take a while to trawl threw them. From my experience also, they did not list the exact location of crash sites within the reports, sometimes they would say “3 miles west of the airfield” and have the aircraft’s home station listed on the report, which makes it hard narrowing it down to a location. If they are American aircraft, they should stand out as they will be listed close to each other on the list as they crashed on the same date.

hope that helps

Will

Hi Folks,

I have to agree with Alan. On previous surface scans on sites you would be surprised how far, small surface scatter can spread out to, leading you away from the initial impact point, on the other hand, with a large amount of American crash sites during the war, they where photographed and can make a good starting point for locating the impact location. It also depends on the nature of the crash, did the aircraft impact relatively horizontal etc…. On a P-38 site I researched many years ago, the aircraft impacted relatively straight and level, and burnt out across the field. After many surface scans with a detector, very little fragments were left to be found.

Will