Land Plane crashes connected to the Donegal Corridor

Land Plane crashes connected to the Donegal Corridor or buried in

                                     Irvinestown. 1939/45. 

23rd May 1942. F/Lt. James Constabaris, RCAF. Lockheed Hudson FH 223 crashed into sea off Sligo. P/O K.B. Dyer & Sgt. D.E. Engemoen both RAF.

15th March 1943. Martinet. 131 SQ. HP133.  Crashed Crannagh, Omagh.  Died Pilot, W/O A.L. Card. RCAF. Buried St. Canice C.O.I. Eglinton.

 

7th Nov. 1943 Halifax EB134 crashed Tuam,  Co.Galway F/Lt. George Hilton Sansome, RAAF, F/Sgt. Allan S. Johnston, RAAF, W/O Norman W. Gardner, RCAF. F/Sgt. Anthony J. Gallagher, RAAF. Sgt. Robert Mair Clark, RAF, Sgt. Edgar William Camp, RAF, Sgt. Leslie Harold  Wildman, RAF.

 

28th November 1943.  Martinet. 131 Sq. HP731. Crashed Scotstown, Monaghan. Pilot Killed. P/O. McMillan.

 

9th December 1943. 2Nd. Lt. Richard Fox, 2Nd. Lt. William Wallace, Sgt. Adam Latecki. Flying Fortress crashed Tuskmore Mountain, Grange, So. Sligo.

 

9th December 1943. 2Nd. Lt. Joseph R. Rudolph, 2nd Lt. Aloysius J. Rodeo, 2nd Lt. Melvin Skerpon, Sgt. Edward J. Mankowski, Sgt. Earl L. Bir, Sgt. John H. Morton, Sgt. Myril E. Youngs.  Flying Fortress crashed at the Graan, Enniskillen.

 

23 Janaury 1944. F/O. Vladmir Adamic, RCAF, W/O Frank Ash, RAF. F/O Fred Dawson, RCAF. P/O. Norman Gzowski, RCAF. Sgt. D.P. Hewston, RAF. Sgt. F.C.E. Hussey, RAF. F/O Clarence Loree Scott, RCAF. W/O Llyod Joyce Upshall, RCAF. Halifax  LK714, base Tiree, crashed at Rougey Cliff, Bundoran, Co. Donegal.

 

19th June 1944.  Cpl. R.W. Cannon, Sgt. C.F. Maesta. USAF. Liberator  B-24 crashed at Abbeylands, Ballyshannon.

 

9th February 1945.  F/L. John Carr, RCAF. Sgt. A.J. McKaine, RAF. Halifax # 120 of 298 Sq. ditched into sea at Mullaghmore, Co. Sligo.                Total land Crashes 9.   Deaths   35.

 

 

 

Mosquito NS 996, Crashed Mourne Mountains, The Castles, Slieve Commedage, South West of Newcastle. 21/1/1945.

 

Pilot Robert Mackenzie, Edinburgh. P/O. John Gordon Farragher.