The current issue of
Air Power History has a review of Robert S. Cutler,
The Bakers Creek Air Crash: America's Worst Aviation Disaster of the Southwest Pacific War (Bloomington, IN: Xlibris, 2016,
The Bakers Creek Air Crash (originally published as
America’s Worst Aviation Disaster in Australia, Brisbane: Boolarong Press 2014
http://www.boolarongpress.com.au/con...asp?bookid=802).
B-17C 40-2072 had been pressed into service as a troop transport. On 14 June 1943, it crashed on take off from Mackay on the Australian north coast, killing 40 of the 41 men on board.
14 June 1943 - Crash of a B-17 Flying Fortress at Bakers Creek near Mackay
WWII Soldiers Who Were Killed in 1943 Crash Now Have U.S. Memorial
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn-...T2JdddAcgZkWpg
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