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American memorial tablet in the church

Also look at the memorial tablet set up by the war memorial

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
1st Lt. William M. Holland
F/O. Leighton D. Paterson
2nd Lt. William S. Munro
T/Sgt Thomas D. Glaspell
T/Sgt Billy B. Freeman
S/Sgt Dean Landfear
S/Sgt. Charles E. Slayton
S/Sgt. Henry A. Scott
S/Sgt. Henry P. Brannon

– co pilot
– pilot
– navigator
– bombardier
– engineer
– radio operator
– waist gunner
– waist gunner
– ball turret gunner
– 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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