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On 1944-06-23, Squadron Leader A. Ross Dawson, the Chief Technical Officer with 1664/1679 HCU at Wombleton, wrote in his diary:
"Well we had our third prang of the month last night when T-Tommy JD106 ploughed into the top of a high hill about 20 miles north of here & right in the middle of the moors. The hill was 1490 ft high & cloud base was 1500 & the pilot was letting down thru cloud in the dark to see where he was! What a thing to do. Anyway W/C Martin and I drove up to find it . . . hunted all morning . . . located the crash at 3:30 in the afternoon. It was spread over ½ mile and was very badly broken up. The tail gunner got out uninjured & told the whole story, the flight engineer is still alive but just barely & they don't think he has much chance. The other six were killed."
Diary of A Ross Dawson, courtesy CWM