Ardennen1944 Posted July 28, 2014 Share #1 Posted July 28, 2014 Dear forum members, Who can help me with this please? I picked this up a local flee market in the Ardennes. It was said it was found at a crash site from an American bomber near La Fosse, Belgium. If the pic doesn't come thru, it says: 683 R3/LB Serial No. 245687 Type No. D 3189/10 Than there are 30 spaces to emboss numbers 440 735 468 803 505 821 523 541 612 651 684 707 724 Thanks in advance for your help! AN plate fosse.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThompsonSavage Posted July 28, 2014 Share #2 Posted July 28, 2014 For Fosse, my records only show an unidentified German plane and two British heavies (Lancaster and Halifax). No US bombers.As for its neighboring towns: Manhay had a P51 crash, Freyneux a P47D and Dochamps a B26B. I might help you more if you can get its exact crash site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ardennen1944 Posted July 28, 2014 Author Share #3 Posted July 28, 2014 Thanks for your reply. I have been Googling in the meanwhile and it appears it was a plate from a Lancaster bomber, so it probably is one from your heavies. The place is called Fosse or La Fosse and sometimes even Pifosse (near Manhay). Do you have more info? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThompsonSavage Posted July 28, 2014 Share #4 Posted July 28, 2014 Lancaster I - LM261 from 207 squadron, coded EM-L, crashed at Fosse on September 12, 1944 after a raid on Darmstadt. Crewed by D. Cooke, E. Brian, J. Bingham, A. Davies, R. Gowan, J. Milne and W. Moxley. Crew buried at Leopoldsburg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThompsonSavage Posted July 28, 2014 Share #5 Posted July 28, 2014 There is some discussion about this aircraft's code. Some sources say EM-L some say EM-C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ardennen1944 Posted July 29, 2014 Author Share #6 Posted July 29, 2014 ThompsonSavage, thanks for your help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob6960 Posted July 21, 2015 Share #7 Posted July 21, 2015 I am highly interested who you bought this piece from. We have been studying in this matter for two years, on behalf of the landowner and the site is kept secret. The landowner wants to build a monument on the crashsite, so we won't have all those seekers crawling around the place.It is always been said that it was a B17. The parts we are finding look like it too.@ ThompsonSavage: Could you tell me where you found the info that it was a lancaster? Many thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThompsonSavage Posted July 21, 2015 Share #8 Posted July 21, 2015 This info is available at the Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History in Brussels. http://www.klm-mra.be/klm-new/nederlands/main01.php?id=documentatie/verloren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob6960 Posted July 24, 2015 Share #9 Posted July 24, 2015 Ah, thanks! I have contacted them once, like two years ago, , but they never responded back. You have solved a mystery for us. Many thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flightpath Posted August 18, 2015 Share #10 Posted August 18, 2015 It would also help to see the plate, sometimes US and British aircraft data plates for parts are set out in differently. Cheers, John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThompsonSavage Posted August 18, 2015 Share #11 Posted August 18, 2015 Plate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flightpath Posted August 19, 2015 Share #12 Posted August 19, 2015 Thanks for the photo, I am a forum that will probably know what aircraft it is from or at least say if it was a British or US made aircraft. Cheers, John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flightpath Posted August 31, 2015 Share #13 Posted August 31, 2015 Here you go... 100% certain it is from an RAF Lancaster.... mod 803 refers to the installation of long range tanks in the bomb bay. Cheers, - John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flightpath Posted August 31, 2015 Share #14 Posted August 31, 2015 Sorry, forgot to say that '683' is the type number for Lancaster, cheers, John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob6960 Posted October 14, 2015 Share #15 Posted October 14, 2015 Thanks John!We have found new evidence that this aircraft indeed was a LancasterMy basement contains hundreds of parts of this plane. Next week we will search the area with a device wich can look real deep into the earth, hoping for some big(ger) pieces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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