2016
TQ8282 : Heavenly Body II Memorial
taken 7 years ago, near to Leigh Beck, Essex, England
Heavenly Body II Memorial
This Mural commemorates the crash of B17 Heavenly Body II in June 1944. Returning from a bombing raid on a V2 rocket site in France, two aircraft collided on their return to base. Of the nine crew six survived; by 2011 only one of the survivors was still living . The memorial was commissioned by the friends of
TQ8282 : Concord Beach; you can read the tail gunner's account of the crash at
Link -
take a closer look at
TQ8282 : Heavenly Body II Crew.
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