Memorial to Stirling N3756- LS-C, crashed at Potash Farm
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Memorial to Stirling N3756- LS-C, crashed at Potash Farm
Image: © Adrian S Pye Taken: 8 Mar 2020
This memorial has been erected in remembrance of the crew of young airmen who were killed after a successful bombing raid on Mainz, 12th August 1942, they were of 15 Squadron, based at Wyton, Cambridgeshire. They were flying in Stirling bomber N3756-LS-C. The aircraft was damaged by flak and enemy fighter fire. After making two attempts to land at Wattisham airfield, due to engine trouble and injuries to some of the crew, the aircraft finally crash landed in this pond whilst making one final attempt to reach Wattisham. Six of the crew of seven were killed. The Crew Pilot; Flt Sgt., William Alfred Delmore McCAUSLAND, RCAF. Flt Eng; Sgt., Peter BUSBY, RAF, Navigator; John Bentley HAMMOND, RAFVR W Op/ Air Gnr; Raymond Douglas TREE, RAFVR Air Gnr; Terence Alfred MILLS, RAF Air Bmr; Frederick William NIXON, RCAF Air Gnr; Flt Sgt., William Ernest EGRI, DFM, RCAF. Survived. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6407796 https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6407789
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