Lawley Bank

The Lawley Bank & Friends Wartime Memory Group was set up to commemorate the Second World War crash where a young American pilot guided his P-47 Thunderbolt fighter aircraft away from Lawley School and Avondale while on fire. The plane crashed ...

The memorial will be placed on the green at Lawley Bank, Telford, where Second Lieutenant Clifford W Jenson's plane went down in 1944. The tribute has been organised by resident Ivor Jones, who saw the P-47 Thunderbolt plane go down when he was a ...

Clifford W Jensen died after losing control of his aircraft during a training flight from Atcham Airfield in June 1944. He was widely praised for piloting his P-47 away from a local school and homes before crashing at Lawley Bank. Ivor Jones, now 79 ...