AircraftCrashes

World War 2 Aircraft Crashes

Felsted and Little Dunmow sat at the centre of a triangle of air fields constructed by the United States Army Air Force when they joined the war. The first operational base was at Great Saling and was named Andrew's Field. The others were at Boreham and Great Dunmow.

A comment by long time villager Ray Crozier set me on the search for the records of a crash at the old sugar factory site, now Flitch Green. That search brought to light the following information. Where I have been able to find detailed information I have created a separate page (linked below)

Aircraft	Location	Date	Casualty
Mustang	Felsted Sugar factory	Unknown	Unknown
Spitfire	John Farrow recalls the Spitfire crash landing on the Barnston side of the River Chelmer between the Mill and the Sugar Factory, (now the site of Flitch Green)	Unknown	Pilot pulled from aircraft by farm workers. Pilot survived and later visited farm workers.
B-24G Liberator "The Wabash Cannon Ball"	Near Apple Tree Corner, Ford End	2nd July 1944	2nd Lt. James Schierbrock
Glider (type unknown)	Woods Farm, Bannister Green (now the Copse)	Possibly Sunday 17th September 1944, part of Operation Market Garden	Unknown. Witnessed by John Farrow, who was aged 13 at the time.
Glider (type unknown)	Field just beyond the cottages set back on the road by Leighs Lodge Cross roads	Possibly Sunday 17th September 1944, part of Operation Market Garden	Unknown. Witnessed by Judy Wallis (née Laudrum) and her mother Laura Laudrum.
P-51D Mustang	Behind Glandfields Farm	26th February 1945	1st Lt. Sellers S. Hardee
Glider (type unknown)	Between Bannister Green and Frenches Green	26th February 1945 mentioned in the crash report for the P-51D Mustang above.	Unknown