There was another aircaft that crashed in our area of Lancashire. On 21 January 1943 a British Halifax bomber (DT581) that had strayed off-course crashed on Hoar Side Moor not far from Black Hameldon, which was later to claim B-24 42-50668 in 1945 (see previous posting of mine).
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