Handley Page Halifax LW334
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Belonging to No 1659 Heavy Conversion unit, crashed on 18th January 1944 while on a day time cross country training exercise.
Info from:-https://www.yorkshire-aircraft.co.uk/aircraft/planes/44/lw334.html (more info and photos of the site can be found here.)
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Armstrong Whitworth Whitley T4138.
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Belonging to No 77 Squadron RAF, crashed on 15th December 1940 after turning back from an operational sortie to bomb Berlin due to suffering an engine failure. The Whitley was circling it's base at Topcliffe when it experience bad weather over the moors and crashed into high ground.
info from:-https://www.yorkshire-aircraft.co.uk/aircraft/planes/40/t4138.html (more info can be found here)
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Belonging to No 434 Squadron RAF, crashed on 18th March 1944 while returning to it's base at RAF Croft after taking part in a mine laying operation in the Heligoland area. The aircraft was descending through clouds when it struck the moor.
Info from:-https://www.yorkshire-aircraft.co.uk/aircraft/planes/44/ll178.html (more info can be found here)
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Belonging to No 1664 Heavy Conversion Unit RAF, crashed on 27th september 1943 while taking part in a night time cross country exercise out of RAF CRoft.
Infro from:_"https://www.yorkshire-aircraft.co.uk/aircraft/planes/43/eb181.html(more info available here)
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Belonging to No 567 Squadron RAF, crashed on 16th September 1945 after entering cloud while returning to it's base at RAF Manston after taking part in a Battle of Britain display at RAF Acklington.
Info from:-https://www.yorkshire-aircraft.co.uk/aircraft/planes/45/sm278.html (more info can be found here including photos of the large amount of wreckage that was here until the 1970s when a scrapman removed it.)
