14/01/2023
🇫🇷 Un lourd tribut.
Le 3 août 1944, L'appareil de transport Douglas C-47 #42-23652 décolle depuis Bruning Army Air Base, Nebraska à destination de Pierre Army Air Base, South Dakota. A son bord, non moins de 4 membres d'équipage et 24 passagers, tous de jeunes officiers de l'aviation américaine (USAAF). Mais à 5km à l'ouest de Naper, Nebraska, l'appareil rencontre un mur d'orages. Selon le rapport, les turbulences et les éclairs provoqueront la défaillance d'un moteur et l'appareil deviendra incontrôlable. Le drâme surviendra quelques secondes plus t**d. Les 28 passagers n'arriveront jamais à Pierre AAB...
John "Jack" F. Albert était l'un d'entre eux, il avait 20ans. Le Flight Officer ne rentrera jamais dans l'Illinois chez sa mère Julia, et fera partie de ses nombreuses victimes militaires qui laissèrent leur vie bien loin des combats.
Pour accompagner sa "Crusher Cap", son registre de vol couvrant la période de 1943 à celle de sa disparition.
🇬🇧 A heavy toll.
On August 3, 1944, Douglas C-47 transport aircraft #42-23652 took off from Bruning Army Air Base, Nebraska, bound for Pierre Army Air Base, South Dakota. On board, no less than 4 crew members and 24 passengers, all young officers of the United States Air Force (USAAF). But 5km west of Naper, Nebraska, the aircraft encountered a wall of thunderstorms. According to the report, the turbulence and lightning caused an engine failure and the aircraft became uncontrollable. The crash occurred a few seconds later. The 28 passengers will never arrive at Pierre AAB...
John "Jack" F. Albert was one of them. The Flight Officer would never return to his mother Julia's home in Illinois, and was one of many military casualties who left their lives far from the fighting.
To accompany his "Crusher Cap", his flight log covering the period from 1943 to the time of his death.