B-24 Liberator 41-29481 flying with 839 Sqn, 487 Bomber Group, out of
> Lavenham Air Base.    Mission to bomb marshalling yards at Troyes, France.
> 11 May 1944
> Plane damaged by flak and returned to England crashing at Chichester,
> Sussex  after crew had baled out, having set plane to fly out to sea.
> There is a discrepancy between the official report, that states that two
> bombs exploded on impact, and eye witness reports that say that five bombs
> were recovered from the wreckage.  I Can personally vouch that there was a
> loud explosion, but was this just the fuel?, could there have been six
> bombs aboard?.
> Can anyone inform me: would five bombs be the normal load?, would they
> have been armed at that point in the mission?, would they explode if not
> armed, would the exploding fuel have caused so much devastation?, one of
> the engines was 300 yards away.
> Submitted By: k a a green