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Date: | Wednesday 2 January 1946 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Gloster Meteor Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 74 (Tiger) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | EE335 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Moreton Crossroads, 2 miles E of RAF Warmwell, Dorset, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Warmwell, Dorset |
Destination airport: | RAF Warmwell, Dorset |
Narrative:Gloster Meteor Mk. III EE335: Delivered to 74 (Tiger) Squadron, RAF Horsham St. Faith, Norwich, Norfolk 27.6.45 coded "4D-J"
Written off (destroyed) 2 January 1946: crashed approx. 2 miles East of Warmwell airfield, Dorset, close to Moreton Crossroads, after making a low run over the airfield.
The pilot performed a vertical climbing roll directly over the airfield. At the top of the manoeuvre, the aircraft entered cloud. It emerged from the cloud in a dive and crashed on the airfield.
Pilot:
Flight Lieutenant (NZ2451) Leonard MILLER, RNZAF, aged 27 - buried at Bath Cemetery (Haycombe). Plot 39. Sec. H. Row F. Grave 245. Son of Mathew and Leonora Miller of Auckland, New Zealand.
The pilot had served 5 years in a P O W camp after being shot down on the 20th May 1940 - a tragic story, as his operational post war career was only some seven months, after five years in a P O W camp.
Sources:
1. Royal Air Force Aircraft EA100-EZ999 (James J Halley, Air Britain, 1988 p 19)
2. Halley, James (1999). Broken Wings – Post-War Royal Air Force Accidents: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd. p.25 ISBN 0-85130-290-4.
3. Final Landings: A Summary of RAF Aircraft and Combat Losses 1946 to 1949 by Colin Cummings p.21
4. "RAF Write-offs 1946": Air Britain Aeromilitaria 1979 p.101:
https://air-britain.com/pdfs/aeromilitaria/Aeromilitaria_1979.pdf 5. Air Britain Aeromilitaria Summer 2009 p.72:
https://air-britain.com/pdfs/aeromilitaria/Aeromilitaria_2009.pdf 6. 74 Sqn RAF ORB for the period 1-1-1943 to 31-12-1950: National Archives (PRO Kew) File AIR 27/2431:
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C250506 7.
http://dorset.hampshireairfields.co.uk/dorcrash.html 8. CWGC:
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2691692/miller,-leonard/ 9.
http://www.planetrace.co.uk/1940-1949_28.html 10.
https://www.rafcommands.com/database/wardead/details.php?qnum=29808 11.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Warmwell#Resumed_RAF_use Images:
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Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
19-Aug-2013 18:13 |
angels one five |
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10-May-2015 16:42 |
Angel Dick one |
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09-Aug-2017 06:48 |
pietrzak |
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16-Jul-2019 06:27 |
angels one five |
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22-Oct-2019 23:42 |
Dr. John Smith |
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22-Oct-2019 23:45 |
Dr. John Smith |
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27-Sep-2020 20:58 |
Dr. John Smith |
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04-Jul-2021 20:11 |
Anon. |
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31-Jul-2023 00:31 |
Dr. John Smith |
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