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020 _a9780786478415 (softcover : alkaline paper)
082 0 0 _a363.12/409427662
100 1 _aHedtke, James R.
245 1 4 _aThe Freckleton, England, air disaster :
300 _axi, 203 pages :
_billustrations ;
505 0 _aFreckleton 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.
520 2 _a"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"--
650 0 _aAircraft accidents
650 0 _aDisasters
650 0 _aB-24 (Bomber)
650 0 _aAirplanes, Military
650 0 _aAircraft accident victims
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