Local US Bomber Crash
It's a memory that my father and grandfather used to tell me as a child. They lived at Homestead Farm in Chartridge, Buckinghamshire. My dad was born in 1939 but in the early 1940s, I can't remember the exact date, but an American bomber crash landed in his back garden. It was a farm, so it was in the field directly behind the house. My grandmother was pregnant at the time and she remembers being told to go back home. She responded by saying, she was home thank you very much!
The plane was on its way to Bovingdon airfield because that was a base during the war.
Do you know what happened to the plane?
No, no one told me.
My dad was only a toddler but it cemented itself in his memory.
It was a frequent story told by my family. Because for my parents it was current affairs.
My father didn't go to war because he was a farmer. My other grandfather was serving on a banana boat he got.
My Dad's name is Ian Clark and my Grandmother is Kathleen Clark (but her maiden name was Laidlaw and she was closely related to Piper Laidlaw who got the VC in the First World War).
