Hi Elliott,
My trip to Wales was very eventful! I had the BBC knock at my B&B door at 7:30 the morning after I got to Llanidloes. I had a nice two hour conversation
about my Uncle and his crash site. At that point I hadn’t even been up to see it. That evening I went up to have a look at the area where the Whitley came down. I took my GPS with me. It turned off as we got near Waun Garno and turned on again at the gate which leads to the pathway to the hillside. Five minutes after we got there a freak thunderstorm came out of the blue. So we waited for it to pass. I think roughly 20 minutes. We didn’t get a chance to look at the crashsite that night. So, we decided to go for some pub grub. On the way down from Waun Garno (the way we came up) we noticed the road had been completely washed out by a flash flood. So we backed up and went to a northern road, only to find it was washed out too… I think we spent an hour looking for a way down from the hillside that night! Talk about bizarre!
The next day proved to be much nicer with warm weather. We did find a part from my Uncles Whitley. It was near the top of the hillside which leads to the windmill farm. I also talked to a fellow who’s father came up shortly after the crash to see if he could be of assistance. It proved to be quite a
gruesome site. The rear turret of the Whitley was found a half mile north of the crash site with the gunner still inside. They also found someone outside the plane who had apparently managed to walk or crawl away from the wreckage and die. Anyhow there’s more to the story but it would take me forever to write it up! Still on the hunt for a picture of Whitley P5057!
Cheers,
Todd
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