Returning from a mission to Nuremberg in Germany, the Halifax JD371 KN-O bomber of the 77th squadron of the RAF, was attacked by a German fighter and caught fire. Four men managed to parachute before the crash, one of them will not survive.
The plane was moving straight onto the village but the pilot, in contempt of his own life and of the ones of the three men remaining on board, managed to divert the aircraft which crashed into a meadow.
A wood cross was Planted on the spot of the crash, soon after it, despite the presence of the Germans.
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