July 14, 2023
Lock mechanism for the B-26 at the crash site in Acklins. Was this used to access the aircraft in Morrison Field Florida while the crew slept, resulting in loss of fuel and misplacement of the parachute?
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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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