I was reading about this yesterday. How come we never hear about the 1944 "Freckleton air disaster"? I was completely unaware of it unlike perhaps most other major disasters within living memory in the UK which still crop up in the national news from time to time.

A Lancashire-based US Air Force plane lost control during a huge thunderstorm and crash landed on the village of Freckleton in between Blackpool and Preston, exploded and destroyed part of a primary school and a village cafe full of people, killing 61 people including schoolchildren.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freckleton_air_disaster

I believe this is where the cafe was...





...where the car park is now...




...and the school was directly opposite, where the memorial gardens are now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sven_Hassel

Explains a lot...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutton_Gibson

Quote :

Bibliography

- Is the Pope Catholic? (1978)

Died at the age of only 101.

Why do the good always die so very young?