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Anson aircraft engaged in mutual instrument practise when it crashed two miles north of Markham, Ontario. Both airmen were killed in the crash.
In 1944 Lee Williamson was 10 years old and was staying at his grandparents farm just north of Markham in Mount Joy. farm is now the cite of The Markham Museum.
He and another boy (Harold was his name) were playing in the hay mow at Harold's farm on the south side of the highway. They heard a mighty roar and then an explosion. They looked out and saw a yellow plane doing a loop in the sky and then saw it cross the road and disappear. They ran to the site of the crash and saw a lady hanging out her laundry. She had covered the bodies with sheets and Lee remembers seeing a hand sticking out. They were told to go home. Jean Williamson, wife of Robert Lee Williamson (goes by Lee).
