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Albemarle Bomber

Photograph at the Albemarle Bomber blue plaque

The Albemarle Bomber (1941-1945) In April 1944, an Albemarle Bomber, flying low over the village, collided with a chimney stack and crashed into this wall. Four of its five-man crew were killed. Sgt. Gerald Crowe, a Hartford man, was one of them. He is buried in St. John's churchyard.

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