Consolidated B-24J Liberator 42-100322

 

A day out in Bowland with IanDB in low cloud yesterday yielded this Burn Fell B-24 site I've missed in the past.

Location:  SD 67123 53127

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Consolidated B-24H Liberator 42-94841

Had a foggy day out with Ian DB to end the Xmas Break yesterday. This Liberator was the first of the three crash sites we visited on Holme Moss.

Location:  SE 10632 03385

Consolidated B-24J Liberator 42-50668 Coded 6X M-

A rare day out for me and Mick yesterday took us to the Liberator crash site on Black Hameldon near Hebden Bridge, where these undercarriage components have survived the looters (see the "more info" link for details).

Location: SD 91182 30039

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Consolidated Liberator PB4Y-1 63934 USN

We were shown where a number of previously buried components of this Liberator were concealed today by the people who had hidden them.

We'd never have found some of them without this help.

This cylinder barrel comes from one of the two engines which were relocated.

Location: SE 00838 01630

Consolidated Liberator PB4Y-1 63934 USN

The second, more complete engine relocated today was reportedly rolled quite a way downhill by just one man.

Location: 365m from the main wreck site. Is this a record for single-handed engine-rolling?

Consolidated B-24 J Liberator 42-99991 "Bachelors Baby"

Liberator-Batchelor's Baby: Moelfre
Originally uploaded by wreckhunter

The burn site with its two memorials resulting from the crash of "Bachelor's Baby", which was a brand new Liberator bomber before it met with Moelfre's slopes.

Though all but six (or four according to the link below) of the eleven crew died in the crash, one went on to resume his sports career in the US as the "singing fullback".

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Consolidated B-24 J Liberator 42-99991 "Bachelors Baby"

Liberator-Batchelor's Baby: Moelfre
Originally uploaded by wreckhunter

Memorial to the five human crew killed in the 1942 crash of this American heavy bomber, and their dog "Booster", who was interred at the site.

The site is a full 82 m from the six decimal place coordinates given on the "GPS Walker" site. Perhaps that is why Alan Clark is happy to carry a link to that inaccurate and ill-maintained site and not to ours. No-one is going to find much from "GPS Walker"'s coordinates.

Since the site's title implies that GPS is being used for navigation and production of coordinates, we have no idea how the coordinates published on the website can be so far out.

We have had no success in contacting "GPS Walker", but if you are out there, your comments are invited. We link below our +/-3m accurate coordinates to the relevant page of "GPS Walker"'s site.

Location: SH 71564 74345

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Consolidated B-24J Liberator 42-52003

Mill Hill: Liberator
Originally uploaded by seansonofbig2

What we think to be propeller "spiders" from the Liberator bomber crash site on Mill Hill. This site is a little more than two miles from the Grouse pub, not the one mile claimed elsewhere on the net (clearly by people with younger legs than ours).

Location:SK 05709 90677

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Consolidated Liberator B-24J 42-52003

Liberator: Mill Hill
Originally uploaded by seansonofbig2

Monday's visit to the Liberator on Mill Hill prompted by viewing the area in Google Earth yielded some new (to us) significant groups of wreckage at SK 05748 90650 and SK 05774 90651.

This photo is of the larger of the two clusters.

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Consolidated Liberator PB4Y-1 63934 USN

Liberator Wreck above Chew
Originally uploaded by seansonofbig

The first photo of this undercarriage since 2000, when a gamekeeper asked crash site enthusiasts to bury all the big bits of what had been a major wreck site. This undercarriage is at SE 00872 01595.

There are scraps all around, and a number of collections of bigger scraps within the wreckage field, which extends for maybe 100m or so around the given location.

We put up a small cairn next to the location given to make it easy to find.

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Consolidated Liberator B-24J 42-52003-Main Site

Liberator Wreck
Originally uploaded by seansonofbig

This wheel is at the main Liberator crash site on Mill Hill near the Pennine Way, very close to the secondary site we have been to many times before (see 10th April post for secondary site).

Location: SK 05851 90643

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North American F86 Sabre Mk.2 19234,Consolidated B-24H Liberator 42-94841

Successful outing on Holme Moss with Ralph (the dog) today. Located the RCAF Sabre and USAAF Liberator, but missed the Swordfish again. We'll get it next time!

Liberator wreck was at:



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Sabre at:



SE 09101 05072
















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More pics from our wreckhunting outings are posted here.