Tannington
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{{Infobox UK place
|country = England
|official_name=Tannington
|coordinates = {{coord|52.259962|1.28626|display=inline,title}}
| population = 110
|shire_district= Mid Suffolk
|shire_county = Suffolk
|region= East of England
|constituency_westminster=
|post_town= Woodbridge
|postcode_district = IP13
|postcode_area= IP
|dial_code=
|os_grid_reference=
|static_image = Tannington - Church of St Ethelbert.jpg
|static_image_width = 240px
|static_image_caption= Church of St Ethelbert
}}
Tannington is a village and civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located around ten miles south-east of Diss, in 2005 its population was 110. At the 2011 Census the population had fallen below 100, and not therefore being maintained on this site was included in the civil parish of Brundish.
History
= World War II bomber incident=
Late in the afternoon of 10 October 1943, an American B-17 Flying Fortress, serial number 42-3506 nicknamed Sir Baboon McGoon, ran out of fuel and made a belly landing in a soft and muddy sugar beet field in the village of Tannington.[http://members.tripod.com/~Gerry_Wiseman/Ken_McTigues_Story.htm Recollections] of [http://members.tripod.com/~Gerry_Wiseman/mugshot_ken_mctigue Ken McTigue] a WW-II child evacuee in England who witnessed and described the October crash and recovery efforts. Efforts of a mobile recovery crew to repair the aircraft, and the aircraft's return to service, were documented in Popular Science magazine.Popular Science magazine, archive viewer, June 1944 issue, retrieved 8 June 2012 from [http://www.PopSci.com/archive-viewer?id=mCYDAAAAMBAJ&pg=92&query=Sir+Baboon+McGoon this link]. The aircraft was lost for good when it ditched into the North Sea on 29 March 1944, while returning from a bombardment mission over Brunswick, Germany. The Popular Science article about the belly landing in Tannington appeared two months later, in the June 1944 issue.
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Category:Civil parishes in Suffolk
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