Think of the children ~ Weapons of Mass Destruction in a school and front of a fire blanket; they’ll all be dead within a week. Where’s the phone number for the Daily Wail ………………………… :diablo:

That would be the P51B 43-6731 flown by Lt Edward Kortendick, he was killed in the crash following a collision with power lines. He was with the 383rd FS, 364th FG.

Jeff

Ian & Phil
For those of you unfortunate enough to be getting Ruth Madoc, Max Boyce and other cultural delights (that’ll teach you!!) try Sky channels 974-988, you should find regional BBC1 and Dig1940.
Jeff

The memorial in front of the main school building.

Not everyone is ‘beet’ – I’ve had a ‘root’ about and come up with the answer; the collision between two 64 Sqn Mustangs on 23rd may 1945.

KH566 flown by F/O Lord Calthorpe (baled out safely) crashed at Hassingham and FB135 came down at Southwood. F/Lt John Harthill was killed in this crash.

Lord Calthorpe was killed later that year in another crash near Blythburgh a few miles south on the Suffolk coast

The same photo is in the original ‘Aces & Wingmen’ captioned as being YF-L of the 358th Fighter Sqn (355th FG), crashed at Manston on 3rd Jan 1945. However 44-14564 was bellied in by Capt. Grant A Seeley near Steeple Modern on that date. According to the database on Littlefriends site it was coded YF-E but what can be seen of the letter doesn’t look like an ‘F’.
The officer is identified as Lt Col Moody of the 355th, which would make more sense for him to have been photographed close to their base rather than Manston.