On the 23rd of December 1943 @ 1100 hrs a Douglas C-47B Skytrain 43-60733 of the 27th Air Transport Group, 87th Transport Squadron, 8th USAAF. The crew was flying back to Grove Air Station from RAF St Mawgan when the aircraft crashed into the summit of Brown Willy Tor on Bodmin Moor in fog. The four crew were killed 0-664390 1st Lt Theodore E Garland, Pilot; 0-521760 2nd Lt Daniel C "Buzz" Lardin; 18025422 S/Sgt Paul W Welter and 35334261 Sgt Charles Miller. They are commemorated on the Roll of Honour at Davidstow Moor Museums.  From the book Aircraft Wrecks: The Walker's Guide : Historic Crash Sites on the Moors and By Nick Wotherspoon, Alan Clark, Mark Sheldon Errors in spelling have been corrected here Douglas C-47A 43-3073 >>> 9th USAAF 23-12-1943 Map No.8 SX 158798 (1,300ft.), Brown Willy, Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, England 1st Lt T.E. Garland Pilot Killed 2nd Lt D.C. Lardin Pilot Killed (Original entry was as "Larkin" Sgt C. Miller Eng Killed S/Sgt P.W. Weltner Radio Op Killed The Pilot from the 310th Ferry Squadron, 27th ATG, and three other crew members were assigned to fly the aircraft from RAF St. Mawgan in Cornwall to Grove Air Station in Oxford. After the takeoff the aircraft failed to climb to a suitable altitude and flew into the cloud covered summit of the tor on an easterly track. A scar containing a few pieces of wreckage remains, where the aircraft burned out by a rock outcrop.

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