Does anyone out there know anything about a USAF Boeing B17 crash landing on Snettisham beach in 1944? I believe I read something once on the internet and would like to try to find more about it.
Greenman22
choks wrote:I hope these links are ............ok
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/archiv ... 65038.html
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q= ... arch&meta=
EWW wrote:Just found it on another site, and it has 172 Snett as a gunnery school.
'greenman22 wrote:choks wrote:I hope these links are ............ok
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/archive/index.php?t-65038.html
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q= ... arch&meta=
Cheers Choks!
The links were very informative indeed and has opened a new question where was;
USAAF Station No. 172 -Snettisham, Norfolk.
My family that lived in the village till about 20 years ago and they never mentioned anything about USAAF being in the village during the war.
Does anyone know where in the village, USAAF Station No. 172 was sighted??? (sic, "sited")
Greenman22
greenman22 wrote:Does anyone out there know anything about a USAF Boeing B17 crash landing on Snettisham beach in 1944? I believe I read something once on the internet and would like to try to find more about it.
Greenman22
'greenman22 wrote:
Recently I have found out that along with the B-17. There was also a crash of one of 617 Squadron’s Lancaster bombers on the beach.
From my memory I believe the Dambuster was ‘H’ for Harry.
I believe six of the crew died and it said that the crash site is now inland, Due to the reconstruction of the coastline after the 1951 floods.
The aircraft was recovered from the beach and was repaired. Later went on the raid that was sadly shot down.
'greenman22 wrote:
There was also a crash of one of 617 Squadron’s Lancaster bombers on the beach.
From my memory I believe the Dambuster was ‘H’ for Harry.
The aircraft was recovered from the beach and was repaired.
Later went on the raid that was sadly shot down.
'greenman22 wrote:
There was also a crash of one of 617 Squadron’s Lancaster bombers on the Snettisham beach.
and it said that the crash site is now inland.
The aircraft later went on the raid that was sadly shot down.
Hornchurch wrote:'greenman22 wrote:
There was also a crash of one of 617 Squadron’s Lancaster bombers on the Snettisham beach.
and it said that the crash site is now inland.
The aircraft later went on the raid that was sadly shot down.
Greenman, mate - Further to my detailed 2 x replies & posts to ya, above, I figured I'd best add this....
This USAAF Boeing B.17 thread is being further & further diluted & drifting well-away from the original thread-subject-matter = (Thread-Drift)
It is with THAT in mind, that I've opened another (totally separate) thread on your 'Lancaster/Snettisham/Crash' subject, lest THIS one get more de-railed
Here's your most-likely '617 Lanc' candidate ???? https://www.kingslynn-forums.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=9503&p=58535#p58535
The 'Station.167' could also do with it's own separate thread (as it's a bowl all of it's own), but it's best to keep the 1944 Lanc' crash, AWAY from the 1943 B.17 crash.
Not least because it does NOT have it's own thread title or reference, but also because it dilutes the B.17 info' & takes things off on a totally different tangent....
Just my 2-cents, as they say.........
( NB :: Boeing B.17 = WOLFERTON/1943, whereas Lancaster Snettisham, 1944 = Wolferton & Snett's are MILES APART & opposite-ends of the A.149 bypass)
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greenman22 wrote:Does anyone out there know anything about a USAF Boeing B17 crash landing on Snettisham beach in 1944? I believe I read something once on the internet and would like to try to find more about it.
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