AN item about a mid-air collision of two aircraft at Bovingdon in 1945 published on July 22 prompted Mrs P.F. Thomson, of Croxley Green, to write in: "I actually witnessed the collision while playing on Chipperfield Common, being about eight years old. We immediately leapt on our bicycles, pedalled hell-for-leather down the lane to Belsize (following the smoke) and arrived within five to ten minutes.
"The American Military Police had already driven cross-country in their jeeps from Bovingdon and sealed off both the crash site and the lane into Flaunden while they recovered the bodies.
"From information gleaned at the time it was thought that the Flying Fortress contained American servicemen returning home.
"Whenever I have recalled this as a wartime memory I am met with looks of disbelief, so it is reassuring to be supplied with the actual date."
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