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	Typhoon - Poix, France

The first reported excavation in 2006 came from a French farmer who indicated the crash site of a British aircraft to an English recovery group. The farmer's mother had witnessed the crash and made a note of the incident in her diary; the date was 7 February 1944, a British aircraft had crashed and the pilot had been killed, she thought that the Germans had told her the pilot's name had been something like 'Rick'.

Flight Sergeant A B Kirkwood and Flying Officer J A McDonald, both from No.198 Sqn, were brought down by AA fire from Poix airfield in the Somme region of France on 7 February 1944. Both were killed and now rest at Poix.

An excavation in February 2006 was made in the belief that substantial wreckage remained in site and in the hope that evidence might be found to confirm the identity of the aircraft. In the event little was found and the identity not proven, but it seems likely that clue about the name 'Rick' would indicate Flight Sergeant Kirkwood's aircraft JP747.

The snow covered crash site at Quevauvillers, near Poix in the Somme region of France.