Unidentified aeroplane force landed near Thirsk.

Details surrounding this incident are rather vague and what is known is purely taken from a No.6 Group flying control logbook entries. I can find no other mention of this incident in other unit, station or base orbs. During the afternoon of 3rd May 1944 permission was sought that an American war correspondant undertaking duties as a Canadian Army liason officer be allowed to go as a passenger on a local flying and bullseye training exercise with an aircraft within No.6 Group. This was subject to approval from his unit, from the station commander at the airfield from where the aeroplane was based and two officers at Tholthorpe. This suggests that the aeroplane was based at Tholthorpe. Permission must have been granted. Later, the aeroplane appears to have been force landed in the Thirsk area at around 18.25hrs with a request then made to Topcliffe airfield for transport to take the aeroplane's two army passengers to Whitby by road. Exactly what the aircraft used was is unclear but No.6 Group undertook such training flights in Halifax or Lancasters, Tholthorpe had Halifaxes. There is no AM Form 1180 for any incident which may point to there being no damage sustained to the aircraft.

Pilot - Name unknown.

Passenger - Cpl Epstein. War Correspondant. (Possibly Julius Epstein).

Others - Names unknown.