Curtis Anderson served as a gunner with the 490th Bomb Group. He was later transferred to the 801st/492nd Bomb Group. Anderson was severely burnt when his aircraft B-24 42-94841 crashed into a mountainside in England.



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'Survivor Staff Sgt Curtis Anderson recalled looking out of the window and seeing wisps of cloud. He plugged in his intercom having just returned from the flight deck, looked out again and saw grass… At that point, everything went black.'



'He awoke on the moor, surrounded by fire lighting up the gloom. Using wet peat he was able to douse the flames on himself. Looking down at the burning fuel running in rivulets in the black peat, and at the burning wreckage and his dead pals, with munitions exploding all around, he said “It looked as though I was in hell.”'



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