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    • Large aluminium airframe structure section with lots of green-brown and black paint remains from American B26 Marauder number 42-96263 shot down on D-Day 6th June 1944 it crashed at Gillingham in Kent

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    This is a large aluminium airframe structure section which is a solid aluminium made part which is a few bits still riveted together. The part still with some of its original green-brown and black paintwork remains which is clear to see the section has has ripped and bent by the impact of the crash it has been very well cleaned and is in nice clean condition it is perfect for display or any collection the part is 15 inches long and 6 inches wide. The part comes with a A5 laminated information sheet with pictures and is from American B26 Marauder number 42-96263 shot down on D-Day 6th June 1944 it crashed at Gillingham in Kent.

    American B26 Marauder number 42-96263 the plane was on a D-Day bombing mission on the 6th June 1944 when it collided with another plane and crashed in Kent. On the June 6th 1944, D-Day, it was the first mission of the day for the 394th Bombardment Group of the United States Air Force stationed at the Royal Air Force airfield at Boreham, Essex, England. Flying B-26 Marauder air-craft, the self-proclaimed "bridge-busters" flew attacks on bridges in Nazi-occupied France and the Low Countries. On D-Day Allied forces stormed the Normandy beaches of occupied France to turn  the tide against the Nazi stranglehold on Western Europe. On that day the 394th’s mission was to bomb gun positions at Varreville on France’s northwest coast.

    Flying above Gillingham, Kent at 5:30 am the two B26 bombers collided mid-air all the crews in both planes were killed The other B26 crashed into homes on Corporation Road in Gillingham resulting in the deaths of four civilians. This B 26 marauder crashed into the orchard of East Court farm in Boreham killing the pilot 2nd Lieut. Claude W Kline Jnr and his crew Emil F Ostrowski; Raymond F Sablatura; Joseph Amato; Boris R Selinsky and James F Bechtler. Wreckage was strewn over quite a large area of the orchard. Some landed behind the barn and the resulting explosion blew out the back of the barn. Another large piece landed against the Drawing-room window of the house. The body of Claude W Kline is buried now at the American Cemetery at Cambridge. The Military removed what they could find of the rest of the crew could not be found.
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    386th Bomb Group Martin B-26 Marauder | Wwii fighter planes, Wwii aircraft, Wwii bomber

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