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PHOTO AIRCRAFT CRASH SITE NEAR BRAYDON CRAG THE BOEING B-17G FLYING FORTRESS WAS A FOUR-ENGINE HEAVY BOMBER AIRCRAFT DEVELOPED IN THE 1930S FOR THE THEN UNITED STATES ARMY AIR CORPS. FLYING WITH A CREW OF 9 THE AEROPLANE WAS 74 FT 4 IN (22.66 M) IN LENGTH WITH A WINGSPAN OF 103 FT 9 IN (31.62 M) ON 16 DEC 1944 THE USAAF BOMBER (44-6504) OPERATING FROM MOLESWORTH AIR BASE IN CAMBRIDGESHIRE RETURNING FROM AN ABORTED BOMBING RAID NEAR ULM IN GERMANY WAS MISLED BY FALSE SIGNALS FROM GERMAN TRANSMITTERS. NOT REALISING THEY WERE SO FAR NORTH THE PLANE CAME BELOW THE CLOUD AND CRASHED INTO A SNOW-COVERED WEST HILL. WHEN THE B-17 CRASHED ITS BOMB LOAD WAS STILL INTACT BUT EXPLODED AFTER THE 7 SURVIVING CREW MEMBERS HAD REACHED SAFETY AT DUNSDALE. DEBRIS IS SCATTERED OVER A WIDE AREA ALTHOUGH MUCH HAS BEEN SUBSEQUENTLY REMOVED COPYRIGHT (Photograph and text in Extra Info) ANDREW CURTISPHOTO PAPER THICKNESS NORMAL PHOTOGRAPH THICKNESS
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REF NO ACV-1971
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