July 14, 2023
Final route of the B-26 which crashed in the Acklins bush near Pompey Bay at 12:15 pm on Wednesday 7 April, 1943. Source: Google Earth for map, Mike Stowe for data, author for plot.
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Eric Wiberg – Nylon stockings, parachutes and wreckage found on Acklins of a B-26 Bomber
Women who donated her nylon stockings to the US war effort might not know they often became parachutes, four of which floated to earth and sea over Acklins. After Ralph Stevens rolled out of a doomed bomber, spraining ankle and knee, it was given to a family of six children in Pompey Bay, by the resident commissioner, Chauncy Tynes.
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