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30th April 2018, 11:59

dp_burke

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Re: C-54B - 43-17176 - ATC - Ascension Island - 10 May 1945

Various newspapers in the US reported deaths of the following around that time in an Ascension Island accident

T/Sgt Andrew L McBride

Unfortunately, that very week a USO boxer had returned from a tour of the troops, and the island name shows up in many hits as it was on his route home!

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