Crash of a B-24 Liberator in a creek bed beside Cunderdin airfield, Western Australia in March or April 1942

CRASH OF A B-24 LIBERATOR
IN A CREEK BED BESIDE CUNDERDIN AIRFIELD, WA
IN MARCH OR APRIL 1942

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A USAAF B-24 Liberator crashed into the creek bed on the edge of the Cunderdin airfield in Western Australia in about March or April 1942.

Tom Scotland, a trainee pilot at the time just after the crash, can remember sitting in the crashed aircraft day after day until it was lifted out of the creek. Little did he realise then that he would pilot the first RAF B-24 Liberator to be used by the RAF Pathfinder Force flying into battle in August 1944.

Can anyone confirm the Tail No of the aircraft
or the date of the crash?

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