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Accidents at George Field

  • Writer: Lawrence Lore
    Lawrence Lore
  • Jun 5
  • 1 min read

Flight training was a dangerous operation. There were many planes in the air at once and they did a lot of night flying in all kinds of bad weather. The following is a partial listing of some of the accidents that occurred at George Field during World War II. Information is from the Lawrence County News.

 

April 22, 1943: AT – 10 crashes near Petersburg, Indiana. Both pilots safe. Plane destroyed.

 

May 6, 1943: AT – 10 crashes 2 miles south of the field. Two cadets killed.

 

September 16, 1943: AT–10 crashes on take-off. Instructor and cadet killed.

 

February 17, 1944 Two training planes collide circling field. Nine killed.

 

June 15, 1944: AT–10 runs out of gas over Xenia. Cadets bail out safely. Plane crashes in cemetery.

 

March 8, 1945: Two planes collide at night over the field. One crashes and two officers killed. Other plane lands safely.

 

February 25, 1945: Two accidents claim four lives. Glider accident on Field kills one officer. On same day, a C – 47 transport plane caught fire south east of Robinson. Plane crash- lands at George killing three. Two airmen survived.

 

April 12, 1945: C–46 crashes near field. Two officers killed.



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