The Last Flight of Liberator 41-1133
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Written by William (Bill) F. Cass, a former member of the Philmont Staff Association Executive Committee and the Chester County Council Executive Board.
What began as a routine cross country training flight from Albuquerque, New Mexico, to Kansas City, Missouri, on April 22, 1942, ended in disaster on the crest of 10,242 foot high Trail Peak at Philmont Scout Ranch near Cimarron, New Mexico.
The Last Flight of Liberator 41-1133 is the full story leading up to that mission whose wreckage is the most visited military or civil aviation crash site in the world today. This well-documented chronicle is a story within a story. It concentrates not only on the seven men who perished in the crash, but particularly on the training of the Liberator’s two young pilots in the Army Air Force’s aviation cadet program from the summer of 1941 into the bleak days of early 1942 when the tides of war were running strongly against America and the Allies.
In this wide-ranging book, readers will share in the joy of flight, look back at Main Street America on the eve of World War Two, observe the training of Army Air Force pilots, and come to more fully appreciate the human sacrifice associated with the Allied victory in that most cataclysmic event of the 20th century.
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