The aircraft belonged to the 55th Fighter-Bomber Squadron, part of the 20th Fighter Bomber Wing, 3rd USAF. The squadron was based at Wethersfield, Essex for most of the time it was based in England but between 9th August 1955 and 27th April 1956 was based at Sculthorpe, Norfolk. When this incident occurred near Sheffield it would therefore have been based at Sculthorpe. On 9th December 1955 the pilot of this aircraft was undertaking a training flight when the aircraft suffered an engine flame out owing to fuel shortage at 35,000 feet. The pilot made several attempts to relight the engine but was unsuccessful. At around 2,500 feet, in cloud and roughly over the Hathersage area of Derbyshire he ejected, he then landed on moorland and injured an ankle. The aircraft continued roughly in a north-easterly direction and eventually crashed into Lodge Moor Infectious Deseases Hospital, Ranmoor, Sheffield at 17.01hrs. It initially struck the roof of Ward North Two, passed through Ward North One before finally coming to rest in front of a garage and mortuary area. Newspaper reports later stated that there were 260 patients in the 465 bed hospital at the time of the accident. Unfortunately one patient died a short time after the incident and a further seven were injured but it could have been far more serious in terms of loss of life. Heavy rain, darkness and exploding ammunition hampered rescue operations. The hospital site has since been converted into housing and the crash site now falls within the Redmires Road / Redmires Way area on the new development. Several days later a debate in the House of Commons followed in respect of whether aircraft not undertaking gunnery training should be carrying live ammunition and whether a suitable ballast could be carried in the place of this.
I would direct anyone with an interest in this incident to the webpage "aircrashsites.co.uk/post-war-crash-sites/4-50-3" which includes a well researched look at where the aircraft crashed and what is there today. The list of those injured is, in the main, as quoted in newspapers of the era. I would however say that there may be errors in spellings and ages because some I cannot locate in the birth indexes.
Pilot - 1st Lt Roy Garland Evans USAF (S.No.?). Of Polaski, Tennessee, USA.
Civilian - Mrs Elsie Bamford Murdoch, aged 45. Buried Crookes Cemetery, Sheffield, South Yorkshire (JJ/5688).
Civilian - Mrs Florence Stanton, aged 67. Minor injuries and shock.
Civilian - Mrs Dorothy Gorrill, aged 30. Injured.
Civilian - Mrs Florence Burgoyne, aged 45. Minor injuries and shock.
Civilian - Mr Harold Willcocks / Willcockson, aged 42. Injured.
Civilian - Master John Wilson, aged 12. Injured.
Civilian - Master Patrick Handley, aged 13. Injured.
Civilian - Miss Sandra Williams, aged 10. Injured.