WW2 Aircraft crash sites

[Kitsilano]

This might be just too much information, but here you go re: Wales

Statistical Analysis of Military Aircraft Crashes Wales.pdf https://share.google/uK3FNTJrrXajUhrYW

 

[Kitsilano]

Note:
Earlier, related thread:

Thread 'Aircraft crash website' https://www.ukgser.com/community/threads/aircraft-crash-website.333430/

 

[FERRET]

Just after ww2 ceasefire. But worth including i think!

 

[Posh Pete]

This site gives a lot of detail about crashes in N England and Southern Scotland. Huge detail harvested from a range of sources. Here's an example from a thread I started about a trip around the Scottish borders ...

Beaufighter T3038 – ACIA

 

[Mzokk]

You'd probably be interested in this Flintlock.

Second World War Room | WWII | Ulster Aviation Society

Ernie Cromie Second World War / WWII Display Room showing aviation history during the Second World War, within the Ulster Aviation Society Collection

www.ulsteraviationsociety.org

 

[Mzokk]

And this one.

Second World War aviation incidents in Northern Ireland - WartimeNI

Military plane crashes were common in Northern Ireland during the Second World War. At the time Ulster had many airfields, unpredictable weather and many hills.

wartimeni.com

 

[Mzokk]

This site is also useful but more for ground based WW2 and cold war defence heritage.

Experience

experience.arcgis.com

 

[Mzokk]

I believe that the last US B26 to crash on Irish soil was in 1946 just at the end of WW2 it crash landed in a field at Killeanagh Gorey Co Wexford. Maybe someone local can confirm? There is also supposed to be a memorial to, two Avro Anson's and one US B26 that crashed into Slieve Gallion (Referred to in Wartime NI.). I've been up their a few times but have been unable to find it. It may be on one of the tracks on the hills rather than the access road to the communications tower.

 

[FERRET]

There's also crash site museum at Sleep airfield near Wem in Shropshire.

 

[shuck raider]

Memorial to crew of an RAF Sunderland which crashed at Trory, outside Enniskillen in 1944



The aircraft was involved in a fighter affiliation exercise with two Beaufighters and in trying to evade, flew too low and hit an electricity pylon. Doubly embarrasing as AVM Sholto-Douglas was visiting the area that day.