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Description: Two of five trucks carrying members of the 2/33rd Infantry Battalion and the 158th General Transport Company which were destroyed when a B-24 Liberator bomber crashed into the marshaling park near Jackson's Airfield on 7 September 1943, causing the death of 59 men and injuries to 92. The eleven members of the Liberator's crew also died in the accident.
Title: Jacksons Strip
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