2/Lt Kenneth Carty was the pilot of a B-26 Marauder that hit a mountain in North Wales, click on the picture for the story on this accident, plus more pictures of Lt Carty and Crew from the B-26.com Marauder web site.
CAPT CHARLES E.ACKERMAN Jr - USAAF
Capt Charles Ackerman was the pilot of the 381st B-17G 43-38856 that crashed on North Barrule,Isle of Man,died alongside 30 other men of that Bomb Group from Ridgewell who were bound for leave in Ireland. More details on this website,and in the books `Hell on High Ground 1 & 2 and the book `Mighty Men of the 381st: Heroes All` by Chaplin James Good Brown.
CAPT JOHN N. LITTLEJOHN.Jr - USAAF
Capt John Littlejohn was the pilot of B-17G 42-97286 named `Skipper`n`the Kids` That flew into Beinn Nuis on the Isle of Arran,10th Dec 1944, whilst on a non-operational cross country flight from Knettishall,Suffolk,to Prestwick,Scotland. all the crew of 11 perished. Story in vol 1 of Hell on High Ground and updated in appendix of vol 2.
F/O HOWARD E. `Frenchy` LECOMPTE - USAAF
F/O Howard Edgar `Frenchy`LeCompte Jr, served as a Navigator on B-17s with the 306th BG at Thurleigh,Bedfordshire. He had flown 27 missions and was awaiting promotion to 2/Lt when he lost his life in a crash on the Isle of Man on 14th April 1945 in B-17 42-37840 named `Combined Operations`.
LT TONY A. LUCAS - USNR
On 3rd December 1943,Lt Tony Lucas of VB-103 Squadron USN anti-submarine base at Dunkeswell,Devon, was killed along with 9 crew, when the aircraft he was piloting a PB4Y-1 32014, flew into Steeperton Tor, Nr Okehampton,Devon, on a routine bombing training flight.
LT JOHN GLENNON BYRNES. - USNR
Lt John G.Byrnes, a vetran pilot with VB-111 Squadron, was flying a local familiarization exercise with a crew of five on 24th August 1944, when the aircraft, a PB4Y-1 hit a hill in low cloud in Mid Wales, the Liberator impacted at Moel Fiety, and all on board were killed. Full story in `HOHG2` but brief details can be found on Jim Webb`s GPS Walker site, just `click` the picture to go there.