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Wartime Crashed Aircraft
I was trying to remember the number of crashed aircraft, I had seen, and in another life, dealt with. Despite the closeness of many wartime airfields, Church Broughton being the closest, if you ignore the Marchington airstrip, I could only remember one, during my school days.
This was an Airspeed Oxford, it crashed in Hollington Lane, Stramshall, behind a house, which was lived in by the Arnold's.
I vaguely remember a Wolfed Arnold being a contemporary of mine at school. I can remember, the locus en quo, because my fathers cousin, Albert and his wife Florried, lived in Park Cottage., opposite Arnoleds. Albert was killed in the 1944 Fauld Explosion.
The crash virtually wrecked the aircraft, which was guarded by the local police. I cannot recall, whether the crew was killed. I believe they were.
Does anyone else remember this incident. I am hazy about the time I would suggest it was about 1943.
John Mellor
