Stanwick Lakes, Northamptonshire
Stanwick Lakes
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MEMORIAL SITE : B-17 Flying Fortress Mid Air Collision Memorial
Memorial to remember the 17 Airmen that died and the 3 who survived when two B-17 Fling Fortress aircraft collided overhead on 22 February 1944. The B-17 “Hells Angel II” was from the 303rd Bomb Group at RAF Molesworth, and the other B-17 “June Bug” was from the 384th Bomb Group at Grafton Underwood. The aircraft were forming up to go on a bombing raid into Germany.







