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#17 Operational Training UnitÂ’s Vickers Wellington (BK272) took flight in the late evening of 7 Jul 1944 from RAF Turweston on a night training exercise. Early in the morning of July 8th the Wellington collided in mid-air with another #17 OTU Wellington lll (HE325) and crashed near Westbury in Buckinghamshire, taking the lives of the seven airmen on board. Six aircrew of the other aircraft, HE325, also perished when their Wellington crashed
Killed included Pilot Officer Arthur Corck: Flying Officer Walter Haraczay RCAF J/29418 KIA Brookwood Military Cemetery grave 52. D. 1. Sergeant Robert Fred Bradford RAF KIA Edmonton Cemetery, Middlesex Sec. K. Grave 3349. Sergeant Bernard Hadlow RAF KIA St. Vincent Church Littlebourne Row B. Grave 6. Sergeant Jack Benjamin Lemon RAF KIA Stoke Road Cemetery Slough C. of E. Plot. Grave 2866. Pilot Officer Charles Frederick Searles RAF pilot KIA Mitcham Road Cemetery Croydon Plot P.P. Grave 40033. Sergeant Peter John Woods RAF KIA Northampton And Counties Crematorium
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Collision of BK272 and HE325