2nd Lt Arthur F Williams Jnr died on 29th June 1944 in the Foxwood Avenue Disaster, following the crash of Vincent James P-47 in to a row of bungalow homes. He tried to warn civilians & firefighters in the road of the danger of an unexploded bomb but was killed in the blast, shortly afterwards.

510th pilots Lt. Starck, Lt Kociencki, and Lt Williams were commorated when a plaque to the 405th was unveiled at Purewell Cross War Memorial, Christchurch in June 2002.

29 Jun 1944
AD
Bomb Explosion

Notes added by Larry Hayward, 405th Researcher, Christchurch  England.