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jamiemcginlay
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Location: Glasgow
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 Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 7:46 pm Post subject: Ayr, Whitletts Air Crash, 1941 |
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Whitletts Air Crash Memorial, 1941
The granite memorial lies close by to several CWGC graves of Airmen in Section R, 1931 Division of cemetery.
INSCRIPTION READS:
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TOKEN OF RESPECT
TO 22 VICTIMS OF AIR CRASH
AT WHITLETTS 14TH AUG. 1941
SUBSCRIBED FOR BY INHABITANTS OF WHITLETTS
"FOR FREEDOM" |
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spoons
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Location: St John's Town of Dalry
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For clarification, the memorial is in Ayr cemetery.
On August 14, 1941, Consolidated YB-24 Liberator AM260, an American heavy bomber, veered off the runway during take-off, striking a small building and coming to rest in an embankment. 22 personnel in the aircraft were killed. |
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stuartn
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| This is now WMR, ex UKNIWM, memorial 56978 |
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