The FRECKLETON Air Disaster 1944 | 61 People DIED In This Tragedy...

On the morning of August 23, 1944, as the Second World War raged across Europe, the peaceful village of Freckleton in Lancashire was torn apart by a sudden and unimaginable tragedy.

A U.S. Army Air Forces B-24 Liberator bomber, known as Classy Chassis II, was caught in a violent thunderstorm shortly after takeoff from Warton Aerodrome.

Battling fierce winds and blinding rain, the aircraft lost control and plummeted into the heart of the village. It struck the Holy Trinity School and an adjoining café without warning.

The explosion and inferno that followed killed 61 people - among them 38 children, their teacher, and several local residents. What should have been an ordinary school day ended in chaos, flames, and heartbreak.

Survivors spoke of charred books, twisted metal, and the haunting silence that followed the screams.

The Freckleton Air Disaster remains one of the most devastating home-front tragedies of the war, a day when the war quite literally fell from the sky.

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The VICTIMS of the Freckleton Air Disaster were :

💜 Pilots

1st Lt. John A. Bloemendal,
T/Sgt James M. Parr
Sgt Gordon W. Kinney

💜 Holy Trinity School - Teachers

Miss Jennie Hall
Louisa Lee Hulme

💜 Children

Howard Allanson
Martin Peter Alston
Edna Rae Askew
Sylvia Bickerstaffe
Kenneth George Boocock
Jean Butcher
David Carr
Maureen Denise Clarke
John Cox
Sonia Mary Dagger
Peter Danson
John Hargreaves Foster
Judith Millicent Garner
John Hardman
Annie Lonsdale Herrington
Beryl Hogarth
William Hilton Iddon
Elizabeth Margaret K. Isles
Vera Christine Jones
Georgina Lonsdale
Thomas Frank Mullen
Gillian Parkinson
June Parkinson
George Preston
Michael Probert
Thomas Rawcliffe
Alice Margaret Rayton
Malcolm Scott
June Stewartson
Dorothy Sudell
John Sudell
Joseph Threlfall
John Townsend
Barrie Brown Truscott
Lillian Marjorie Waite
Alice Sylvia Whybrow
Alan Wilson
William Robert Wright

💜 Sad Sack Snack Cafe

Kathleen Forshaw
Gwendolyn Franken
Evelyn Rhodes
Allan Whittle (owner)
Rachel Whittle (owner)
Pearl Whittle (daughter of Allan and Rachel)
James Victor Silcock
Sgt.(Pilot) Walter.W. Cannell
Sgt.(Nav) Robert J. Bell
Sgt.(Nav/W.op) Eric C.W. Newton
Sgt.(Nav) Douglas Batson
Pvt. George Brown
Sgt. Frank L. Zugel
Cpl. Herbert G. Cross
Pvt. Minas P. Glitsis
Pvt. Samuel A. Mezzacappa
Sgt. Theodore E. Nelson
Cpl. Arthur J. Rogney

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