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Check my earlier post for the details German air raid on Maidenhead Mike

Tony, I'm glad you have Peter Halliday's notes, if we had to rely on my memory we would be in sad shape. I couldn't remember the name of the farm but my guess for the location is attached, the hillside was quite steep and the engine was about 8 feet below the surface, it was dug out with a...

When I return to England I will spend some time researching, it should be possible to find more information on this and the other local crashes. I also worked on the dig for the Lancaster that crashed at Lane End while trying to make an emergency landing at Booker I remember the tail wheel...

Sorry but I don't remember many of the details now, its possible that my notes from ATC have survived in England but until I get there and look I'm working from memory. I wonder what happened to the documentation from the museum.

After the dig we went to RAF Cosford to look at this Me410 File:D-Me410.JPG - Wikimedia Commons even got to sit in the pilots seat in this aircraft. I don't know if anyone cares about this history all we can do is preserve these relics and hope the people we pass them to care as much as us.

Hi Bill I remember some blood stained bandages and some possible bone fragments, the eye witness told us that they collected the remains and they were buried at the local church as "unknown German airmen" at the time, however its my understanding that Peter had contacted the Luftwaffe...

Hi Tony I remember it being at Booker, I was one of the ATC cadets who helped Peter Halliday and the Chiltern Historical Aircraft Preservation Group on a few of their digs, I camped out at the ME 410 crash site during the dig and collected a few small fragments for myself, I'm sure those...

Hi Rocketeer everyone else on the board, what a surprise to see that DB603 again after all this time, I was one of the people who dug it up back around 1969 or 1970 when I was a member of 1811 Marlow ATC, even spoke to an eye witness of the crash who was still working at the farm at that time...