2011
TF3301 : USAF air crash memorial site near Thorney Toll
taken 13 years ago, 3 km from Thorney Toll, Cambridgeshire, England
USAF air crash memorial site near Thorney Toll
35 years ago to the day (28th August 1976) a Lockheed C-141A Starlifter (67-0006) from the 438th MAW, US Air Force disintegrated in a severe thunderstorm on its approach to the USAF base at Mildenhall in Suffolk. The wreckage fell from the sky and covered a large area of farmland between the River Nene and a country lane called Thorney Dyke and all 14 crew and 4 passengers lost their lives. This memorial stands as an everlasting reminder of those who lost their lives in such tragic and possibly avoidable circumstances. See the following for more details and photographs taken on the crash site
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