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C-47 Skytrain
Assigned to 18TCS, 64TCG, 8AF USAAF. Departed Bradley AAF, CT for the ETO. Routing through Presque Isle, Goose Bay Labrador, Bluie West 1 (Narsarsuaq Greenland) [3 week delay], thence to Prestwick via Iceland. Failed to Return (FTR) flight from Prestwick to RAF Atcham. During the descent through bad weather, A/C crashed into the northern side of Moel-y-Gaer mountain. A/C broke up and caught fire. Four crew members and seven passengers Died Non Battle (DNB). A single passenger survived to be rescued.
Group
The Group trained with the Eighth Air Force flying from Ramsbury, Wiltshire. The Group was reassigned to the Twelfth Air Force on 14 September 1942. Its first mission was dropping paratroops into French North-West Africa, at Maison Blanche, Algeria on...
Squadron
Military | Private First Class | Radio operator | 14th Fighter Group
Assigned to 49FS, 14FG. Passenger aboard C-47 41-7803 crashed at Moel y Gaer mountain 23-Aug-42. Died of Wounds (DOW) 26-Aug-42.
Awards: PH.
Military | Technical Sergeant | Tail Gunner | 14th Fighter Group
Assigned to 49FS, 14FG. Passenger aboard C-47 41-7803 crashed at Moel y Gaer mountain 23-Aug-42. Died Non Battle (DNB).
Awards: PH.
Military | Technical Sergeant | 14th Fighter Group
Assigned to 49FS, 14FG, 8AF USAAF. Passenger aboard C-47 41-7803 crashed at Moel y Gaer mountain 23-Aug-42. Died Non Battle (DNB).
Awards: PH.
Military | Second Lieutenant | Co-pilot | 64th Troop Carrier Group
Assigned to 18TCS, 64TCG, USAAF. Co-pilot aboard C-47 41-7803 crashed at Moel y Gaer mountain 23-Aug-42. Died Non Battle (DNB).
Awards: PH.
Military | Technical Sergeant | 14th Fighter Group
Assigned to 49FS, 14FG, 8AF USAAF. Co-pilot aboard C-47 41-7803 crashed at Moel y Gaer mountain 23-Aug-42. Died Non Battle (DNB).
Awards: PH.
Military | Technical Sergeant | 14th Fighter Group
Assigned to 49FS, 14FG, 8AF USAAF. Passenger aboard C-47 41-7803 crashed at Moel y Gaer mountain 23-Aug-42. Died Non Battle (DNB).
Awards: PH.
Military | Technical Sergeant | Crew Chief on P-38's | 14th Fighter Group
George was a graduate of Southwest Texas State Teacher's College and taught school prior to enlisting in the Army Air Corps in June 1941. While enroute to England the plane he was riding in crashed into a mountain in Wales called Moel y Gaer. George...
Military | Technical Sergeant | Passenger | 14th Fighter Group
Assigned to 49FS, 14FG, 8AF USAAF. Passenger aboard C-47 41-7803 that crashed at Moel y Gaer mountain 23-Aug-42. Died Non Battle (DNB).
Awards: PH.
Military | Technical Sergeant | 14th Fighter Group
Assigned to 49FS, 14FG, 8AF USAAF. Passenger aboard C-47 41-7803 crashed at Moel y Gaer mountain 23-Aug-42. Patterson survived the crash but died soon afterward at Wrexham Hospital. Died of Wounds (DOW).
Awards: PH.
Military | First Lieutenant | Navigator | 64th Troop Carrier Group
Assigned to 18TCS, 64TCG, USAAF. Navigator aboard C-47 41-7803 crashed at Moel y Gaer mountain 23-Aug-42. Died Non Battle (DNB).
Awards: PH.
Military site : airfield
Opened as civil Prestwick Airport with a grass airfield in 1936, it was also an RAF training, fighter and Coastal Command base during 1936 to 1941. Scottish Aviation established an assembly and maintenance facility there in 1938, developed during the...
Military site : airfield
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Crashed | Coed Moel-Y-Gaer, Denbigh LL16, UK | 23 August 1942 |
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Failed to Return (FTR) flight Prestwick to RAF Atcham. Crashed into side of Moel-y-Gaer mountain due to weather. 7 x Died Non Battle (DNB). 1 x RTD. |
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