UPL 26167

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Crash site of B-17 " 42-107191", seen as of December 2016. Impact crater is the depression in the ground seen below hedgeline, slightly left of centre. Lude Farm is just over hedgeline at top right of picture. View taken looking South-southwest.

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Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Tomahawk Warrior
  • Unit: 398th Bomb Group 600th Bomb Squadron

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Date:
ContributorMdala
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Caption Modified with corrected air frame # of Tomahawk Warrior that crashed at Lude Farm in Penn Buckinghamshire 12th August 1944

Date:
ContributorDHardie
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Cited airframe buzz number from official USAAC crash report from 1944.
Photograph caption description altered.

Date:
ContributorDHardie
ChangesCreated entry with caption
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Photograph taken by D Hardie , December 2016.