Aircraft Crashes Around Turvey 1939-1945 : Related Pictures 5
Boeing B-17 42-31898, 15th July 1944

 

5.1
Mass formations of B-17's setting out on daylight raids from Podington, Thurleigh and Chelveston once filled the skies over Turvey.

Several local residents can still recall the harrowing sight of combat damaged aircraft struggling to make the final few miles back to base, some dropping flares to indicate there were injured on board.

 

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5.2
Freer's Wood beyond the ruins of the farm .
The aircraft came in from the right in this picture.

5.3 + 5.4  June 2001
The 92nd Bombardment Group Memorial  at the side of the former main approach road to Podington Airfield 

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