Thankyou OneEigthBit,yes have all the details of the aircraft invoved and a few small bits of Glider crew equipment picked up at the time.I spoke to Mr Swallow again last night ( who witnessed the event ) he repeated there was a small explosion and a small plume of smoke directly BEFORE the tail fell off.Him and some school friends were watching the Glider being towed by the Stirling as it came over and raced over to the crash scene on their push bikes ( a terrible sight apparently).Bob and his friends visited all the wartime crashes around here ( quite a few British and German).he told me there was the wing of a german aircraft leaning up agains a tree in Mells woods for `donkeys years`. They visited the fresh crashsite of Halifax DT558 just outside mells and were apprehended with their `trophy` by a local policeman who made them return the part.One of the flying helmets of the german crew of a ME110 that crashed at Haydon Pit is owned by a chap in the village who wears it on his `trike`. I was amazed to see a wall still unrepaired 60 years later after a HE111 smashed through it up at Charterhouse…a slow unchanging pace of life around here.