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Description: | The crash site of a German Luftwaffe Dornier 217-M1 serial number 56055 that crashed during the Second World War. The aircraft, U5+RL from 2/KG2 (KG, Kampfgesschwader, was a Luftwaffe organisational unit) was one of fifty aircraft detailed to attack Hull at night and this aircraft was intercepted by a night-fighter of the RAF, a Mosquito mark XII of 264 Squadron. The Dornier dropped its bombs on Kenwick House before it was shot down and crashed at Vicarage Fields near Legbourne on 19 March 1944 at 10:04pm. One of the four crew baled out and was captured; the others did not survive.
The crash site has been identified and small pieces of wreckage have been found, the site has been surveyed with a metal detector by the Lincolnshire Aircraft Recovery Group. {1}
The area was excavated in September 2007 by the Lincolnshire Aircraft Recovery Group. An area of intense burning was discovered and artefacts which included corroded metal, parts of the engine of the aircraft, a bomb tail fin, an oil tank filler point and a piece of 'bakelite', authenticating the aircraft's German origins, were found. The aircraft had clearly crashed at a steep angle without sliding and there had been a 'hard' impact. Most of the aluminium was molten or had turned to ash indicating the plane had burnt furiously and extensively. {2}{3} | Subjects: | General Archaeology | Temporal: | 1944 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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