B29 Superfortress 'Overexposed' Crash Site (75th Anniversary)
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- čas přidán 11. 11. 2023
- On the 3rd November 1948 the B29 Superfortress 'Overexposed' crashed on the moor above Manchester at around 11am killing all 13 crew on board. On the 3rd November 2023 I headed to the crash site, arriving at 11am and completely unaware that it was the 75th anniversary of the crash to the minute.
This excellent hike took me to the summit of Bleaklow Head first via the Pennine Way before crossing open moorland to the crash site close to Higher Shelf Stones.
Distance: 10.11km
Ascent: 209m
Duration: 3 Hours 34 Minutes
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Excellent video of a typical Pennine walk on a typical soggy day. Good use of hand held and
drone cameras. Great viewing for a disabled ex walker. Thanks 🐻
O MY DAYS... What a lovely video remembering those who died. ❤
Overexposed is definitely an eerie place to be. It's amazing that you were there 75 years to the minute that it crashed. I've had it to myself and with a lot of others, but everyone was quiet. Thanks for sharing, Joe.
Thank you. Was perfect timing!
I live in Perkinsville, in the town of Weathersfield in Vermont, USA. I live at the bottom of the eastern slope of Hawks Mountain, along the Black River, which comes down from the height of land around Ludlow, and Plymouth, to join the Connecticut River in Springfield, six miles south of us. Hawks Mountain is named for a major of the Massachusetts Colonial Militia who in or around 1758 and during what we call the French and Indian War, escorted a French prisoner of war back to Montreal for purposes of an exchange for kidnapped setterlers, passing this way, and who by reports encamped near here high up its slope overseeing the river. In so doing, he scouted the route from Fort Number Four in present day Charleston, New Hampshire, to Lake Champlain and thence to Montreal. Later, on orders from General Amherst given in New York, he led the way for a work crew consisting of regular British troops and colonials who built a military road from Lake Champlain to this fort, some ten miles from here, more or less following the path he had taken over the mountains. That road, which opened Vermont to settlement by New Englanders, was called the Crown Point Road, after the then formidable fort at the southern end of Lake Champlain, which General Amherst's forces had just then taken from the retreating French during the course of their Hudson Valley campaign. Vestiges of it remain and can be found not far from here. Around 1906, they were memorialized by the Daughters of the American Revolution with granite markers that can be found along highways and old back roads. The work, begun in October of 1759, in all likelihood, though there is no record of it, cost the lives of some men. It was led by a Scottish lieutenant named Small, who would end his days as the Royal Governor of Jersey. The New Hampshire militia, led by then Col. John Stark, assisted, and in fact, it appears, got out ahead of Major Hawks, being anxious to get home, but in so doing perhaps were less of a help than a hindrance, since they did not know the way, and followed difficult highland routes of which Lt. Small and Major Hawks did not approve.
Around the same time as this USAF B-29 crash in the heights above Manchester, another B-29 on a night flight from Texas to Hanscom Field outside of Boston, crashed in to Hawks Mountain with the loss of all crew on board. I have not researched the subject, but obviously, the crew were quite off course at the time of the crash. Perhaps they saw the lights of the Springfield airport, a mere three miles to the southeast, and thought it was Hanscom. Had they been in descent, and banking to approach it, and not hit Hawks Mountain, a mere 2000 foot peak, they would have hit Mount Ascutney, another thousand or so feet higher. There is an historic marker in Perkinsville memorializing the event.
At the time, flight navigators and pilots lacked many of the aids we take for granted.
Cool....typical Bleaklow weather