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B-17 Crash England
1943-12-05
On 5 December 1943, a Boeing B-17 of the 401st Bomb Group, taking off from an 8th Air Force base in England for a mission over enemy occupied territory, was unable to lift its heavy bomb load and crashed into an unoccupied house. Twenty minutes later an explosion of bombs caused by flames from the engines shook the countryside for miles around. Fortunately there were no fatalities. This is a view of the wreckage.
