Chester County PA Archives News.....Plane Crash, 1944

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Daily Local News, May 8, 1944 (excerpt)

Crashed at 4:40 pm on May 7, 1944.

"  The plane was on a routine return training flight to its home base at 
Kissimmee, Fla., from Newark, NJ, where it took off at 4:04 pm. Army officials 
said.  Just before the crash, however, it was traveling in a northwest course 
over West Chester.

Rain and hail was falling in a sudden squall, which broke over the area north of 
West Chester at the time of the tragic mishap.  Virtually hundreds of West 
Chester Residents saw the plane make its fatal plunge. 
It attracted attention here because of the fact that it was flying at a low 
altitude, probably less than 1,000 feet."

(Full article on Microfilm at Chester County Historical Society)

Note:  See an image of the monument at Oaklands Cemetery:
http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/chester/tsimages/oaklands/wwiimonument.jpg