The last flight of Liberator 41-1133
Subtitle: the lives, times, training & loss of the bomber crew which crashed on Trail Peak at Philmont Scout Ranch
By: William F. Cass
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Philmont Staff Association, Inc.
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Cimarron, NM
Language: eng
Number of pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780983049746
Subjects: B-24 (Bomber); World War, 1939-1945; United States. Army. Air Corps. Aviation Cadet Program; United States. Army Air Forces; Aircraft accidents; Bomber pilots; Flight crews; Training of; American Aerial operations; Military cadets; Philmont Scout Ranch; Accidents; United States; Biography
Other titles: Lives, times, training & loss of the bomber crew which crashed on Trail Peak at Philmont Scout Ranch
Description: "What began as a routine cross country training flight from Albuquerque, New Mexico to Kansas City, Missouri, on April 22, 1942, ended in disaster on the crest of 10, 242 high Trail Peak at the Boy Scouts of America's fabled high adventure base, Philmont Scout Ranch, near Cimarron, New Mexico. The last flight of Liberator 41-1133 is the full story leading up to theat mission whose wreckage is the most visited military or civil aviation crash site in the world today ... It concentrates not only on the seven men who perished in the crash, but particularly on the training of the Liberator's two young pilots in the Army Air Force's aviation cadet program from the summer of 1941 into the bleak days of esrly 1942 when the tides of war were running strongly against America and the Allies."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-420).