B17 crash pit in Home Covert
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B17 crash pit in Home Covert
Image: © John Goldsmith Taken: 21 Jul 2010
In the days when Moreton Hall was a mansion, Home Covert was the nearest wood with shooting birds. The Hall has become a school, and given its name to a large housing estate in its former grounds. But in the meantime - on January 6th 1945 to be precise - a B17 Flying Fortress, fully laden with fuel and bombs at take off from the adjacent Rougham Airfield, plunged into the wood. Two pits show the site of this accident. The second pit appears in Image
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