The Freckleton, England, air disaster :
By: Hedtke, James R.
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BookDescription: xi, 203 pages : illustrations.ISBN: 9780786478415 (softcover : alkaline paper).Subject(s): Aircraft accidents | Disasters | B-24 (Bomber) | Airplanes, Military | Aircraft accident victimsDDC classification: 363.12/409427662 Online resources: Click here to access online | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Freckleton before World War II -- Base Air Depot 2 -- Ground pounders, fly boys, and their amazing machines -- Accident -- The crash : Wednesday, August 23, 1944 -- The inferno -- The interment of the innocents -- The investigation -- The new normal -- The playground memorial -- Remembrance -- Freckleton today -- Epilogue -- Appendix.
"The Freckleton catastrophe of August 23, 1944, occurred when an American B-24 Liberator crashed into the small village of Freckleton in north west England. The village would never be the same. In a compelling account of sorrow, loss, hope and finally rebirth, the book looks at the history of the village"--
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