Unidentified Anson force-landing "near Leeds".

On 12th March 1943 an Anson base at Dumfries is recorded as having placed as missing at 13.55hrs, probably while it's crew were carrying out a cross country training flight. The aircraft was subsequently found to have made a forced landing "near Leeds". To date the only two references I have located to this incident are in the 275 Squadron record book that recorded a search was carried out by one of their pilots in a Defiant in the area of the Isle of Man. A second mention is in Andreas airfield station record book that states pretty much the same. I presume the forced landing was near Leeds, Yorkshire. The precise location is not given or known at the time of creating this weboage. More information needed.

Pilot - Name unknown.

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