WW2 C47 Crash

Very moved by yesterday's talk so I've tweaked and edited and assembled these images which are not mine but feel justified in using them to tell the story.
Which is told in a wee book
The forgotten Rhinns air disaster by Sandy Rankin.
Cairngarroch Bay
This is now on the WMR (ex UKNIWM)- reference 71607.
The plaque reads
Near this spot on 27th July 1944
A USAF C47 aircraft
carrying wounded servicemen from Normandy
crashed into the cliff all 22 persons
on board perished
lest we forget
The crew (all Americans) were:
1st Lt Galen R Hendricks
2nd Lt Raymond Hutchings
2nd Lt Leon J Tully
S/Sgt Merl W Skinner
Sgt Jay V Alcorn
2nd Lt Mary E Jackley (Medical Corps)
T/3 John H Salmi (Medical Corps)
F/O Dan W Meshaw

Wounded American servicemen
(all killed in the crash):
Major Irving J Shure
2nd Lt John W Ingram
2nd Lt Theron W Ward
Sgt Ernest H Corvin
Sgt Billy Morris
Cpl Elmer F Lauf
Pfc James D Green
Pfc Keith G Lowdermilk
Pfc Marcus Saposhnikoff
Pvt James Ayers
Pvt Jack F Sheidler
Pvt Edmund L Davis
Pvt Donald R Hammerstrom

There was only one British victim, LAC Samuel Gilmour who had obtained a lift on the plane. He came from Kilwinning where he was buried; his grave is posted on SWGP.

Much more detail is available in the book previously mentioned.