16 OTU Hampden P1221
T/O Upper Heyford for a night navigation sorties. Around 0045 the Hampden flew into the ground, at high speed, roughly 4 miles S of Polebrook airfield in Northamptonshire. All were laid to rest at Old Weston (St Swithun) Churchyard, Huntingdonshire. Lindsey was an American from Battle Creek Michigan
Chorley BCL Vol 7
And from this board:
"Their plane, a Handley-Page Hampden light bomber, crashed during a night-time training exercise, after actually hitting the spire of the church in the mist and knocking off the top ten feet. The piece landed in the churchyard, and has been left exactly as it landed that night in 1942, about twenty feet from where they lie buried."
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