Looking for information on a USAF B17 forced landing/crash

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I am looking to locate details of a forced landing/crash at RAF Swingate in January of 1943 or 1944 (I think it will be 1943, but there are discrepancies with some dating elements in the rest of the account). If anyone can help me I'd be grateful - this is part of a jigsaw puzzle that forms part of a much larger research project.

The details:
Taken from an account of life at RAF Swingate by Flight Sergeant G. Brent.
"The second day on site, I was inspecting the receiver block and realized an incident was taking place. An incoming target was on the screen with no IFF from the aircraft. It was approaching dead on to our station, losing altitude and only travelling about 140mph. At one point it looked like it was below the level of the cliffs, but it pulled up at the last minute and just missed our block, making a belly landing about 200 yards away.
I phoned the medical people for an ambulance and picked up a couple of mechanics, and we ran to the downed B17 Fortress from the USAF. The pilot, a major, was struggling to remove the Norden bombsight, but appeared to be smoking a cigar. We asked about the rest of the crew and he replied, “they’re all stiffs.” We removed eight bodies, but there should have been ten. We never knew whether they were blown out of the plane through the flak holes, one of which was as big as a jeep, or whether they were thrown out to lighten the load. All the machine guns were gone.
I made arrangements for motor transport to the railway station in Dover and a rail warrant for London. The Major, carrying the bombsight in a fitted bag, wanted to visit American HQ in London. I now revised my watch schedule to free up two guards for the plane on a twenty four hour basis so the clocks, compass and radios wouldn’t walk.
Unlike the RAF, the USAF had crews on site the following day, and amazed everyone by putting airbags under the wings to lift the body whilst they lowered the undercarriage. They installed new propellers, filled the tanks with gasoline and removed the anti-glider wires on the field. The plane was flown off the field at 3:00pm that day."

Going through the USAAF Overseas Accident Reports, the only entry I've found so far is for a crash landing at Swingate in January 1945.

This was AT-6 42-84593 of the 363rd Fighter Squadron, 357th Fighter Group.
The pilot, Lt. Walter E Corby, and Crew Chief S/Sgt Melvin Schuneman were both killed in the crash, when they were returning to Leiston in bad weather after repairing one of the 357th's P-51s in France.

I'll keep looking,
PB