Mosquito HK176 at Riccall airfield.
On 23rd June 1944 the crew of this 307 Squadron aircraft were undertaking a training flight when the port engine failed. The crew were able to make a landing at Riccall airfield but the aircraft appears to have swung off the runway and then ran into a ditch. It came to rest badly damaged.
Pilot - F/Lt Wladyslaw Piotrowski PAF (P.1614).
Navigator / Radar Operator - F/O Gilbert Louis Fowler RAFVR (89962).
Gilbert Fowler was made a MBE in the New Year Honour's list of 1946.