More than 13,000 were killed in WWII flight training, including in B-24 bomber crash on South Side
More than 13,000 training pilots lost their lives during WWII, including 12 aboard a B-24 that crashed trying to and at what is now Midway Airport.
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More than 13,000 training pilots lost their lives during WWII, including 12 aboard a B-24 that crashed trying to and at what is now Midway Airport.
On May 20, 1943, a B-24 bomber of the 1014th Pilot Transition Training Squadron took off from an Army airfield in Texas and headed to Chicago. The bomber’s crew was fated to be among the estimated total of more than 13,000 aviators killed in World War II training accidents.
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