lancaster w4326 dolwen hill

This is the impact crater high on dolwen hill of lancaster w4326 which crashed on the night of 16th 0f november 1942 , a photo flash exploded in the rear of the plane causing the plane to break up over a wide area! sean and mick from peak wreck hunters are on the far side of the crater

a large pile of remains has built up at the edge of the crater mostly skinning and fuel tank left over from a large dig at the site and seems that it is still on going as there has been very recent digging in the crater ! there is a small memorial slate on the smaller pile
one overly cute farm cat on the way up the hill !!
this site is very near the high ground wrecks ref pop over to peak hunters they will have much better refs
thanks to sean and mick for a good day

llangollen

Another nice walk but no remains this is minera mt above llangollen near the site of beaufighter NE203 's crash but as the daylight ran out i found nothing also had ref for a spitfire and a mustang but failed to get near these !
there was alot mine workings all over the mt and this hole with a bit of sheet covering it was about 60ft deep hmmm nice hehe will return soon !!!
beaufighter 115/714552
spitfire 117/242489
mustang 117/239463
high ground wrecks refs!

Church gates Blenhiem t1892

Some time i saw these gates at kinver church they were dedicated to the 3 crew of blenhiem t1892 which crashed at longbridge on the 22/3/41 after striking a ballon cable!
sorry about the picture quality !! the main plaque is dedicated to Pilot P/O I M Shirlaw, also lost was observer P/O Dugdale and WO/AG F/O Mair

NH695 update

on the 9th of november i revisited the sites of 3 plane crashes around bewdley with sean and steve from the peak wreck hunters and aide from bromsgrove plus rich [the ccm hill climber ]
nothing was visible but a sweep with a detector uncovered some small remains at the site of NH695 a spitfire xiv which crashed on the 19th march 1946 !

the finds were reburied and we left as the weather was getting stroppy somewhat!!!
good ref's can be found on peak wreck hunters blog!

Cwm mountain halifax G-AIHU

This site on cwm mountain near the village of Cwm has a small memorial to the crew of halifax
G-AIHU which crashed on the very top of Cwm mountain with the loss of 4 crew on the 5/12/47

The plane was from a civilian company" the lancashire aircraft company " another aircraft from this company G-AJNZ hit cronk ny arree laa i.o.m. on the 28/09/48 i visited this site years ago so no pics but a scar with small remains was visible!
A small pile of stones with a weather worn cross sits on the edge of the site on cwm mountain
i found nothing on the surface due to the snowfall but it was nice walk anyway !
Near to the halifax site is the crash site of b-17 42-5791 "ruthless" which crashed in a field just about in the middle of this photo on the 29/12/43 with the very sad toll of 21 the 95th BG memorial foundation were/are planing a memorial on the site i have no more details
ref halifax is at about SJ 07269 76725
there is a ref for the b-17 on the internet as follows 116/075774 but i cannot vouch for it being acurate

moelfre b24

This is the memorial to liberator 42-99991 "batchelors baby" which crashed during a transit flight on 07/01/44 on a small hill above penmaenmawr
nothing bigger than these fragments are now on site the large burn area in front of the memorial is full of such small items!

the stone give the names of the 5 crew who died in this crash and the crew mascot a fox terrier named "booster" who was buried near by the crash site!

wellington dv455

Wellington dv455 crashed into this lane just i front of the first tree on the 19th of july 1943 near bodedern the crew had bailed out with the loss of one crewman worse still the crewless plane hit a passing car killing all three occupants !
ref 114/ 339833