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Old 7th April 2008, 21:16
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Re: A/C Crash Site in Spain (Sierra Nevada, possibly post WW2)

Frankie,

It might very well be the C-124 in the Sierra Nevada. This transport plane was enroute with supplies for the search efforts that followed the B-52 and KC-135 collision, which sent some H-bombs missing off the Med coast of Spain.
"Older" readers of this board may well remember this Jan. 1966 accident, let alone incident.

A 2006 Department of History of the Florida State University thesis says on page 49 (see: http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/availa...jmm_thesis.pdf)
that the C-124 came down "near Granada", which of course is nearer to the Sierra Nevada. Author was John Megara.
It appears that the C-124 was enroute to San Javier, with its airbase. Camp Wilson was a temporary base set up by the Americans at the Los Palomares crash site.

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Leendert
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