USAAF drop tank accident. July 1944

[Ossington]

Thank You, Noggin & All The Above. I think the pilot was named in the Coroners report, but that it was not published at the time for "security reasons"
This incident brings out the terrier in me. Because nothing about it seems to appear in published histories, I strongly suspect that the unit involved was some second line affair, Atcham/Goxhill, that kind of thing. Is I ever get a name, I'll be on here for follow-up info.

[Leendert]

As Rolland remarked, most USAAF fighters were based in SE England.



I was thinking of a flight to/from RAF Burtonwood near Warrington, home of Base Air Depot 1, the major USAAF maintenance center/centre, including P-47s (if that was the fighter type involved...).


Nottingham is roughly halfway between Burtonwood and Norfolk/Suffolk.


Regards,


Leendert

[RSwank]

Leendert,

Yes, Burtonwood is a possibility. Another would be Warton.

Here are two fighter crashes by ferry pilots related to Burtonwood and Warton.
https://etvma.org/veterans/herman-c-carey-9530/
http://laituk.org/P-51_43-6635.htm

I think the main ferry squadrons in England were the 310th, 311th and 312th Ferry Squadrons of the 27th Air Transport Group.

[dp_burke]

See if you can get the coroners report. Contact the modern day office and see if they know where archives might be.