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Aircraft Crash Memorial

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Aircraft Crash Memorial

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    Location: Neuleiningen, Landkreis Bad Dürkheim, Palatinate Forest, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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    September 18, 2023

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    Here, on September 24, 1944, an English Royal Air Force transport plane crashed. All occupants, 23 men, died. 🕯️
    This memorial was inaugurated on September 25, 2021 in the presence of the descendants of those who died, representatives of the Royal Air Force, the Royal Canadian Air Force, the Australian Air Force and the German Air Force.
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    September 26, 2023

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    A special place of remembrance and warning on the wide high plateau of the Neuleiniger Berg - with a steel stele (showing all 23 people who died here, sorted by nationality), an information board (with a detailed description of all the events up to the inauguration of this Memorial and photos of all those who died in the accident) and a beautiful rest bench with a view over the fields and the Palatinate Forest.
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    September 26, 2023

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    Here is the text on the information board on site:
    Quote BEGINNING: On September 24, 1944, an English Royal Air Force transport aircraft of the type Douglas C-47 “Dakota”, with …
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