And the same goes for Canadian records.

I recently downloaded extracts from an RAAF file, different to the A705 records we normally get, it was a set of documents that went home with one of the RAAF squadrons that operated from Leuchars, it contained a full set of casualty files for all the squadron personnel regardless of nationality, quite interesting to compare an RAF example with RAAF, they are the same.

Have a read of this, http://www.thebarrieexaminer.com/2012/10/01/uncles-d-day-mission-mystery-solved-in-normandy-field

There are a lot more photos here http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2211250/Wreckage-Lancaster-bomber-crashed-D-Day-killing-crew-identified.html

Moggy,

You are not alone, I also thought that yesterday when I first read the article, there was clearly a lot of human remains discovered to account for the personal effects and uniform fragments. There is a lot of media interest in this now that the Telegraph have run an article.

As the signs are maintained by either the Highways Agency or local council, they were probably recovered by them, I bet most were not kept.

Certainly very interesting. I wonder what sort of depth the water is in the area, and to what depth it freezes in the winter. If the ice is deep enough it could move any wreckage some distance.

Objects such as steel engine cores can be found fairly easily with magnetometers, just a case of systematic surveying.

Being so close to Prudhoe you’d like to think the oil industry might assist in such a project, after all they’re the ones who are trying to develop the continental shelf off Alaska.

The valves on the 601 (and many other inline engines) appear to be parallel to the centre line of the cylinder. Those recesses are set for inclined valves, like those on radial engines.

I’m going for probably a Pratt & Whitney piston.

Kind of helps that you posted a photo of a P&W piston of the same design two years ago CD (http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?t=101445&page=2), see post 49.

That F-105 (62-4217) is recorded on http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_serials/1962.html as being lost to ground fire some 5 miles SW of Thanh Hoa, North Vietnam, on April 4th 1965, pilot ejected and was taken PoW.

FAA Fixed Wing Aircraft since 1946 (Air Britain) records XN652 as having carried 461/V, it was with 893 from 18-02-1963 to 20-11-1964, in that time the squadron is shown as being at Yeovilton, aboard HMS Centaur (tail code C) and HMS Victorious.

XN651 also carried 461 of 893 Sqn but with the C tail code for HMS Centaur, there is a photo of the starboard side of the a/c at Yeovilton on Pg.160.

As XN652 is the only a/c which seems to have carried 461/V i’d go for that as the a/c in the photo. It was last noted at Catterick Fire School in 1988.