----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Barker" <imagopus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 11:45 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] Liberator Crash site
> You're welcome Joel. I was thinking of the US contingent of the List
> while we visited the site. I believe that you are right: I don't
> think there was much of an investigation into the cause of the
> accident.
>
> Chris
Hello Group!
I'm new to the OM list and have been a lurker till now, but you've touched a
chord in me with this one. My father was a ball turret gunner and radio
operator with the 307th BG flying B-24's out of Morotai (Dutch East Indies
between Australia and the Phillipines) in 1944 and 1945. I asked him once
about investigations of accidents, etc. He replied "Accidents happened all
the time. It was just a fact of war. The Army didn't have time to
investigate every crash to find out why." Hundreds of men died every day.
They just notified the families that it happened and recovered the bodies if
possible, if not, it was left to the locals to handle. War was awful. When I
see the price that generation paid, I feel very humble and thankful. Let's
all hope the world never sees anything of that magnitude again.
Doug Betts
Hartville, Ohio USA
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