American Memorial Tablet in the Church (older trail page)

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Trail: American Memorial Tablet In The Church

American Memorial Tablet in the Church

A memorial tablet to remember the ten US Air Corps men who died in a plane crash in Northamptonshire during World War Two was installed in the church in the autumn of 2010. This was sixty six years after ten American servicemen lost their lives in a crash in Astwell.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning

we will remember them

Captain Richard W. Pugh – co pilot

1st Lt. William M. Holland – pilot

F/O. Leighton D. Paterson – navigator

2nd Lt. William S. Munro – bombardier

T/Sgt Thomas D. Glaspell – engineer

T/Sgt Billy B. Freeman – radio operator

S/Sgt Dean Landfear – waist gunner

S/Sgt. Charles E. Slayton – waist gunner

S/Sgt. Henry A. Scott – ball turret gunner

S/Sgt. Henry P. Brannon – tail gunner

These American Airmen were the

crew members of B17 bomber 42-3048

they died at 08:19 on

30th November 1943

At Astwell Castle Farm

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