Freckleton Air Disaster

Witness History: Archive 2014 - A podcast by BBC World Service

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In August 1944, a US Air Force plane crashed into a village, Freckleton, in northwest England, killing 61 people. More than half the victims were children attending the local primary school. Survivor Ruby Currell speaks to Witness.PHOTO: Ruby Currell in the nurse's uniform she was given after recovering in hospital. (Private Collection).