Dambusters (the crash site) Traditional Cache
davy boy: Looks like this one has gone now.
Dambusters (the crash site)
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This cache was set in the Elan valley to remember the Canadian
crew of a Halifax bomber which crashed very near here in WW2 which
a friend and i rediscovered in 1980.
I have been trying to relocate this site for a
few years now as it was many years ago we found it but with a
bit of help from a few locals and friends it has been found
again.
When we found it in 1980 we also dug uo some of the engine parts
and dials from the cockpit as well as a watch which are now in
Rhayader museum but unfortunatly closed at the moment due to lack
of funding.
I have sited the cache away from the crash site as it is very boggy
and difficult to get to but it is in view from the cache.
In the mid 1970's engineers were surveying the area to build a huge
dam to flood the whole valley and they found and removed an engine
from the bomber(would love to know where it went?)..
The Halifax crashed on Dec 12th 1944 at 1.10pm on a training
mission from Dissforth in Yorkshire on a very cold wet day,it nosed
dived from 10.000ft and nobody seems to know why!The pilot was
called Pilot officer Harding,and all the crew were burried at a
military cemetary in Chester.
The cache is situated near a small cairn to the east of the site
with wonderful views of the surrounding area,there is another cache
you can find on the way to this one called Y foel,happy
hunting.
Closest parking for the cache is at 50 16.868,W003 35.605 near a
lovely waterfall next to Garreg-ddu reservoir,walk back about
100yds and you will see the steep footpath on your left.
click
here for info on the area.
Additional Hints
(Encrypt)
2 metres east of boundry marker under heather.