Consolidated B-24 Liberator crash, Aug 2, 1943 (16 killed)

Consolidated B-24 Liberator accident on August 2, 1943 near Whenuapai AFB (Auckland) Auckland Council, New Zealand with 16 fatalities.

A Liberator Express crewed by United Air Lines crashed shortly after takeoff from Whenuapai, Auckland, on 2 August 1943 in rain and fog. Sixteen people died, most of them Japanese women and children being moved in a prisoner exchange.

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