Image: B-24 Classy Chassis II, pictured in March 1944 with its operational crew before being sent to Warton for refurbishment. The Freckleton Air Disaster. August 23, 1944. At 10:30 a.m., two newly refurbished B-24 Liberators took off for an air test from the USAAF Base Air Depot 2 at Warton, near Preston in Lancashire. AContinue reading “The Freckleton Air Disaster. August 23, 1944.”
