ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 101497
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| Date: | Saturday 1 September 1945 |
| Time: | 5:55 |
| Type: |  Consolidated B-24J Liberator |
| Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Force (USAAF) |
| Registration: | 44-48934 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 11 / Occupants: |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Hondo AAF, TX -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
A B-24 Liberator training plane crashed and burned a few hundred yards north of the field.
The crash occurred about 5:55AM shortly after the plane took off from the field. The plane crashed almost in the front yard of the Ferd Rock home and wreckage was scattered over the premises and damage was done to liveoak trees and an implement shed nearby.
The plane was on a proficiency flight from the AAF Flight Engineering School
Killed:
Pvt Barbara Hogan
Maj Harvey Wible
2nd Lt Timothy Murnane
Lt John McGrane
Lt Marion Nelson
Pfe George Lawry
Cpl Louis Federinand
Pfc Kenneth Palmer
Cpl Michael Lechus
Tech Sgt Stanley Rembisz
Cpt Billy Warren
Sources:
http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/src/db.asp
https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth564987/m1/1/
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