page_title: Clifton Hampden
section_title: Air crash
hierarchical_section_title: Clifton Hampden / Air crash
caption_attribution_description: A USAAF Lockheed F-5E-2-LO Lightning (s/n 43-28974) reconnaissance plane photographed in flight, ca. 1944. The F-5 was the reconnaissance version of the P-38 fighter.
context_page_description: Clifton Hampden is a village and civil parish on the north bank of the River Thames, just over 3 miles east of Abingdon in Oxfordshire. Since 1932 the civil parish has included the village of Burcot, 1 mile east of Clifton Hampden. The 2011 Census recorded the parish population as 662.
context_section_description: On 20 July 1944 a USAAF Lockheed P-38F Lightning photoreconnaissance aircraft from nearby RAF Mount Farm attempted a forced landing at Clifton Hampden, but hit treetops in The Coppice and crashed into a field. The aircraft, which was carrying drop tanks, exploded and burned on impact. Witnesses reported that one of the Lightning's twin engines had stopped and the other was barely turning.
  The pilot, 2nd Lieut Robert Mitchell of the 22nd Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, 7th Reconnaissance Group, was killed. He is buried at the US military cemetery near Cambridge.
caption: USAAF Lockheed P-38F Lightning similar to that from RAF Mount Farm which crashed at Clifton Hampden
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