Thunder Wrote:
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> The Other side of war, that many people seem to
> miss, is "Training Accidents". Many a man, has
> lost his life while training. Out here in Rural
> Colorado where I live, we lost a B-24 and its
> entire crew, while on one of these training
> missions. Though I don't remember the details,
> (printed in a local newspaper, not because I was
> there at the time) I will get a photo of the
> marker, and hopefully some details of the
> incident, soon.
Tonopah, Nevada, had an Army Air Corp training base during World War II. It was used for training of first P-39 flyers and later B-24 crews. There were a number of P-39 and B-24 crashes and the
Central Nevada Museum in Tonopah has a
list of 110 known fatalities on its website.
This is the same Tonopah that was served the ng Tonopah RR and its sg successor Tonopah & Goldfield RR. T&G had a traffic boom during the war transporting Army Air Corp personnel, wives, etc. and aviation fuel and other supplies.
Brian Norden