THE wartime aircraft crash at Throop (‘Crash site of RAF Halifax is unlikely’, Daily Letters November 4) occurred in early June 1944, the most often quoted date is June 1.
Fred Mayne’s excellent little local history pamphlet Skies over Throop describes the events and the discovery of the bodies of two aircrew and the wreckage 100 yards west of Vine Cottage.
The aircraft was a Mosquito fighter bomber operated on night intruder operations by 418 Squadron Royal Canadian Air Force from RAF Holmsley South in the New Forest.
Reports describe one engine and wing separating from the aircraft after a dull explosion.
418 Squadron sadly lost a second Mosquito in a similar accident in late July of that year when another of their Mosquitos, now operating from Hurn, exploded high over Alma Road and crashed in Parkstone. Again both crew were killed.
JOHN LEVESLEY, Friends of the New Forest Airfields
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