B-17 'Sharon Belle' (42-3048) Plaque
Details:
On a wall inside the church, on the right side next to the WWI and Alfred-George Humphrey plaques.
A portrait orientated wooden backboard with an attached gold colored plaque. The plaque is inscribed in English text with black lettering. It commemorates the 10 airmen who were killed when their B-17 (42-3048) “Sharon Belle” crashed at the Astwell Castle Farms in 1943.
Source of information and images: Imperial War Museum War Memorials Register
Monument Text:
At the going down of the sun
and in the morning
we will remember them
Captain Richard W. Pugh - co pilot
1st Lt. William M. Holland - pilot
F/O. Leighton D. Paterson - navigator
2nd Lt. William S. Munro - bombardier
T/Sgt. Thomas D. Glaspell - engineer
T/Sgt. Billy B. Freeman - radio operator
S/Sgt. Dean Landfear - waist gunner
S/Sgt. Charles E. Slayton - waist gunner
S/Sgt. Henry A. Scott - ball turret gunner
S/Sgt. Henry P. Brannan - tail gunner
These American Airmen were
the crew members of B17 bomber 42-3048
they died at 8:19 on 30th November 1943
at Astwell Castle Farm
Commemorates:
People:
William Murray “Billy Murray” Holland
Units:
327th Bomber Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group
92nd Bomber Group
US Army Air Corps
Wars:
WWII
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