Re: B-24D LIBERATOR 42-40474 info needed....

[Danny152]

Hiya all,

I am trying to get any information unit, aircraft name, aircrew info on:

CONSOLIDATED B-24D LIBERATOR 42-40474 , HAMBLE DOWN, DARTMOOR
Airbourne from Alconbury Air Station in Cambridgeshire on the 27th December 1943, the aircraft was on the third leg of a cross-country training flight. This part of the route was intended to take the aircraft from over Taunton to Bude Bay, but the plane deviated south and was 20 miles off the planned route when it flew into cloud covered hill and burned out. All 8 crew members were killed.*

[Sean Welch]

CP. O-533307 Joseph W Hanley 2nd Lt. OH
G. 34315051 Henry D MacMillan S/Sgt. NC
B. O-744404 Louis F Peterson 2nd Lt. NY
N. O-660520 Milton L Remling 1st Lt. TX
G. 34084110 Eddie P Rush S/Sgt. GA
E. 38043713 Jesse Allen Wallace T/Sgt. TX
RO. 6939905 Glen O Wichner T/Sgt. SD
P. O-431584 Robert L Williams Capt. MO

482BG/36BS

All 8 crew were initially buried at Brookwood 4th January 1944

Sean

ps it is Hamel Down

[RSwank]

A little information here:

http://www.801492.org/Air%20Crew/Wil...ms%20Crew.html