kaag
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- Joined: 06/26/2008
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liberator crash
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07/25/2008 10:44:23 AM
B-24 Liberator 41-29481 flying with 839 Sqn, 487 Bomber Group, out of Lavenham Air Base. Mission to bomb marshalling yards at Troyes, France. 11 May 1944
Plane damaged by flak and returned to England crashing at Chichester, Sussex after crew had baled out, having set plane to fly out to sea.
There is a discrepancy between the official report, that states that two bombs exploded on impact, and eye witness reports that say that five bombs were recovered from the wreckage. I Can personally vouch that there was a loud explosion, but was this just the fuel?, could there have been six bombs aboard?.
Can anyone inform me: would five bombs be the normal load?, would they have been armed at that point in the mission?, would they explode if not armed, would the exploding fuel have caused so much devastation?, one of the engines was 300 yards away.
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