A memorial to a wartime aircraft crash in Shalford, Essex. FULL DETAILS IN DESCRIPTION.
This memorial commemorates the loss of an American Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress over the Essex village of Shalford on 4 August 1944 during the Second World War. The plane, named 'Dry Gulcher', had left Ridgewell Airfield near the village and was carrying incendiary bombs which it was to drop on the V2 rocket factory and launch site at Peenemunde in NE Germany. An electrical fault is thought to have caused a fire shortly after take-off and the plane crashed and exploded in a field next to St Andrew's Church, Shalford. Nine of the American crew parachuted to safety but Staff Sgt Harold Norris, the tail gunner, was trapped and died; the memorial was erected by his nephew with the help of Shalford Parish Council and Shalford Local History Society.
Size: 4216px × 2800px
Location: Shalford, Essex, England
Photo credit: © UrbanImages / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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