A ceremony was held 80 years after a fateful crash killed five young men near an Oxfordshire village.
While returning from missions, the RAF bomber Albemarle V1782 overshot the runway at Brize Norton and crashed.
It burnt out in a field on Mill Farm near the village of Black Bourton, near Bampton, with the loss of all crew.
The Armstrong Whitworth A.W.41 Albemarle was a British twin-engine transport aircraft that entered service during the Second World War.
Designed as a medium bomber, the Albemarle was used for general and special transport duties, paratrooper transport and glider towing.
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At a ceremony at Mill Farm on Tuesday (August 27) the Station Commander Group Captain Louise Henton laid a wreath to commemorate the crew.
A plaque was laid in memory of Albemarle V1782 crew: Flight Sergeant Alan Henry Busbridge, Flight Sergeant Bernard Vincent Mowan, Flight Sergeant William Fredrick Insley, Sergeant Kenneth James Shay and Sergeant Edgar Fredrick Bonser.
Group Captain Henton said: “It was an honour to be here today, on the 80th anniversary, to commemorate and remember the young crew of Albemarle V1782 who sadly made the ultimate sacrifice."
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