Lancaster near Dalton airfield.

On the 23rd of July 1944 the crew of this Lancaster were undertaking a training exercise and were landing at Dalton when they missed their approach to land, overshot and crashed at 14.45hrs. The aircraft crashed through a hedge, crossed a road and caught fire in the field opposite. Two of the crew were injured.

Pilot - P/O D L Snider RCAF.

Names of crew not recorded.

In June 2007 Ken Reast showed me where this aircraft had crashed, he located peices some years ago. The aircraft came to rest towards the centre right of the photograph. A scar in the field is not thought to have been caused by this crash.