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Command Failure

The US Army Air Forces' Worst Peacetime Disaster

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The Stearman PT-17

 

Lt West crash site vicinity, Roaring River

Truax memorial

Sugarloaf Peak, on route to rescue West and Lydon

57th PG P-40c

Allison engine from a P-40

Mitchel Field, main gate, postcard circa 1941

Lydon and West post rescue

 

The Boys, after barely making it. Maj. Hughes back row, second from right

Barton-Lackey Cabin, site of West and Lydon's salvation

Barton Peak. West crash site somewhere near by

B-18. Search aircraft for West and Lydon

Randolph Field. "West Point of the Air"

P-40c cockpit. Carburetor heat control at upper right

P-40 diagram

57th PG logo

 

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