Crash Site Consolidated C-87 Liberator Express 41-11706

C-87 Liberator Express 41-11706 crashed on 25 July 1944, killing all 27 persons on board.

The Consolidated C-87 Liberator Express was destroyed in an accident on Florida Island, Solomon Islands. The airplane was operated by a Consairways crew on behalf of the USAAF's Air Transport Command (ATC), flying 21 high ranking passengers from the U.S to Guadalcanal and Brisbane, Australia.
It crashed in a jungle on a mountain top while approaching the airport at Guadalcanal.

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Source

• Text: Kaj Metz & Raoul de Wilde
• Photos: USAAF
• Pacific Wrecks