USAAF B-24H 42-94841 ‘Sack Time!' on Twizle Head Moss, Yorkshire, England.
On 9th October 1944, B-24H Liberator ‘Sack Time' was being taken for a test flight following repairs. The crew, skippered by First Lieutenant Elmer D Pitsenbarger of Iowa, were joined by two ground crew passengers who had been begging for a flight for some time and were taken along for the ride.
All except one on board were killed in the crash. The B-24 was flying too low in low cloud. Trying to remain below the cloud in order to maintain visual contact with the ground, the pilot had not accounted for the high ground rising unseen ahead.
42-94841 flew low over Holmfirth and along the Holme Valley. However, the ground rises steeply at the end of the valley and the Liberator collided with the moor, gouging a trail 200 metres long and bursting into flames. Another 20 feet might have seen them clear.
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Name: Clarence S. Watson
Death Date: 9 Oct 1944
Cemetery: Tablets of The Missing At Cambridge American Cemetery
Cemetery Burial Plot: Missing in Action or Buried at Sea Cemetery
City: Cambridge Cemetery
Country: England
War: World War II
Title: Corporal
Rank: Corporal
Service: U.S. Army Air Forces
Service ID: 39406449
Division: 35th Squadron, 64th Troop Carrier Group
Data Source: World War II Honor Roll
On 9th October 1944, B-24H Liberator ‘Sack Time' was being taken for a test flight following repairs. The crew, skippered by First Lieutenant Elmer D Pitsenbarger of Iowa, were joined by two ground crew passengers who had been begging for a flight for some time and were taken along for the ride.
All except one on board were killed in the crash. The B-24 was flying too low in low cloud. Trying to remain below the cloud in order to maintain visual contact with the ground, the pilot had not accounted for the high ground rising unseen ahead.
42-94841 flew low over Holmfirth and along the Holme Valley. However, the ground rises steeply at the end of the valley and the Liberator collided with the moor, gouging a trail 200 metres long and bursting into flames. Another 20 feet might have seen them clear.
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Name: Clarence S. Watson
Death Date: 9 Oct 1944
Cemetery: Tablets of The Missing At Cambridge American Cemetery
Cemetery Burial Plot: Missing in Action or Buried at Sea Cemetery
City: Cambridge Cemetery
Country: England
War: World War II
Title: Corporal
Rank: Corporal
Service: U.S. Army Air Forces
Service ID: 39406449
Division: 35th Squadron, 64th Troop Carrier Group
Data Source: World War II Honor Roll
USAAF B-24H 42-94841 ‘Sack Time!' on Twizle Head Moss, Yorkshire, England.
On 9th October 1944, B-24H Liberator ‘Sack Time' was being taken for a test flight following repairs. The crew, skippered by First Lieutenant Elmer D Pitsenbarger of Iowa, were joined by two ground crew passengers who had been begging for a flight for some time and were taken along for the ride.
All except one on board were killed in the crash. The B-24 was flying too low in low cloud. Trying to remain below the cloud in order to maintain visual contact with the ground, the pilot had not accounted for the high ground rising unseen ahead.
42-94841 flew low over Holmfirth and along the Holme Valley. However, the ground rises steeply at the end of the valley and the Liberator collided with the moor, gouging a trail 200 metres long and bursting into flames. Another 20 feet might have seen them clear.
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Name: Clarence S. Watson
Death Date: 9 Oct 1944
Cemetery: Tablets of The Missing At Cambridge American Cemetery
Cemetery Burial Plot: Missing in Action or Buried at Sea Cemetery
City: Cambridge Cemetery
Country: England
War: World War II
Title: Corporal
Rank: Corporal
Service: U.S. Army Air Forces
Service ID: 39406449
Division: 35th Squadron, 64th Troop Carrier Group
Data Source: World War II Honor Roll
On 9th October 1944, B-24H Liberator ‘Sack Time' was being taken for a test flight following repairs. The crew, skippered by First Lieutenant Elmer D Pitsenbarger of Iowa, were joined by two ground crew passengers who had been begging for a flight for some time and were taken along for the ride.
All except one on board were killed in the crash. The B-24 was flying too low in low cloud. Trying to remain below the cloud in order to maintain visual contact with the ground, the pilot had not accounted for the high ground rising unseen ahead.
42-94841 flew low over Holmfirth and along the Holme Valley. However, the ground rises steeply at the end of the valley and the Liberator collided with the moor, gouging a trail 200 metres long and bursting into flames. Another 20 feet might have seen them clear.
++++++++++++++++++++
Name: Clarence S. Watson
Death Date: 9 Oct 1944
Cemetery: Tablets of The Missing At Cambridge American Cemetery
Cemetery Burial Plot: Missing in Action or Buried at Sea Cemetery
City: Cambridge Cemetery
Country: England
War: World War II
Title: Corporal
Rank: Corporal
Service: U.S. Army Air Forces
Service ID: 39406449
Division: 35th Squadron, 64th Troop Carrier Group
Data Source: World War II Honor Roll
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CPL US ARMY WORLD WAR II
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His remains were taken to the 10th General Hospital in Manchester, where they apparently disappeared.
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