Roscroggan
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Roscroggan is a hamlet north of Camborne in Cornwall, England.Ordnance Survey One-inch Map of Great Britain; Land's End, sheet 189. 1961
Fatal WWII plane crash
In the Second World War, on Friday 24 July 1942, a Bristol Beaufort twin-engine torpedo bomber, AW288, of No. 86 Squadron RAF crashed into the disused Roscroggan Chapel.
All four of the crew perished at the scene.{{cite web|last1=Ben Ward and Mark Steele|title=The crash of Bristol Beaufort AW288 at Roscroggan Chapel|url=http://www.aw288.net}}
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See also
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