In this episode, we visit the crash site and recently unveiled memorial to a top-secret B-17 Flying Fortress which crashed soon after take-off in November 1943.

At the time, B-17F 42-5793  was the most secret aircraft of its kind – the first bomber in the United States Eighth Army Air Force fitted with a new type of radar.

The plane went down only minutes into what should have been a flight from Thorpe Abbots, in Norfolk; to Alconbury, near Huntingdon, in the East of England.

All 13 crew were killed.

So too were four people on the ground and their horse.

Relatives spent decades trying to find out why the plane crashed – a mystery  which remained unsolved for years.

This episode is co-hosted by Johann Tasker with military historian Mike Peters and podcast guest Steve Andrews.

To contact Johann and Mike, email johann@ruralcity.co.uk.

Featuring interviews with John Price Jr. (grandnephew of of pilot Arthur  Reynolds); and Vickie Tregner (niece of radar mechanic Herman Kolousek).

Special thanks to Clive D. Stevens.

Thanks also to Tarkey Barker; Maggie Aggiss; Ian McLachlan; 100th Bomb Group Museum, Thorpe Abbotts, Norfolk; the Oaksmere Hotel, Rectory Road, Eye, Suffolk.