Three Barrows Mk.X Memorial
Three Barrows, Dartmoor, Devon (Dartmoor)
Location
Three Barrows, Dartmoor, Devon (Dartmoor), Devon (Dartmoor)
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Aircraft & Operation Details
Crew
Memorial Details
Memorial Care
Local Contacts
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Further Reading
Detailed account of the Wellington LN775 crash at Three Barrows on Dartmoor. The aircraft departed the Overseas Aircraft Dispatch Unit at RAF Hurn, Dorset, on 1 March 1944 for transfer to Mediterranean Air Command en route to Rabat Sale, Morocco, but drifted 25 miles off its briefed route.
Aircraft flew into the hillside in cloud on a westerly track and burned out. Four crew killed. Wreckage was not located for three days after the crash. Small pieces of melted aluminium and heat-discharged cartridge cases remain at the site.
Dartmoor artefacts database entry for the Wellington Mk.X crash site at Three Barrows, recording the location of the crash scar and remaining debris near the central barrow of Three Barrows.
Crash scar visible within sight of the central barrow. Heat-discharged 0.303 cartridge cases still found at the site decades later.
Sources
- Legendary Dartmoor(website)
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