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				WWII Air Crash Detectives			


			

				
WWII Air Crash Detectives


				

					6.3										2014										Documentary · War & Politics				


				
Garth Barnard has a lifelong passion and unshakeable resolve to investigate how thousands of young Airmen from the Second World War died in catastrophic air accidents and training crashes.

				

									

						
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																		Garth Barnard
								

															

																		Aileen Downey
								

													

					

							

		


					

				

	

		
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				Lost & Confused - Sharp Top Mountain B-25 Crash
								Garth Barnard investigates shocking WWII air accidents, starting with a tragic B-25 training crash in Virginia that killed…			

		
				
			

									Death in the Moonlight: Turweston Wellington Collision
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				Death in the Moonlight: Turweston Wellington Collision
								In 1944, two Wellington bombers collided in mid-air over Northants. Garth Barnard investigates why 13 young trainees perished.			

		
				
			

									Australia's Worst Air Crash: Baker's Creek
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				Australia's Worst Air Crash: Baker's Creek
								Australia's worst aviation accident happened in 1943, when 40 crew died in a B-17 bomber crash. Hear why…			

		
				
			

									Death on the Great Plains: Naper 28
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				Death on the Great Plains: Naper 28
								Garth Barnard fact-finds to determine the cause of a terrible accident in Nebraska in 1944, when a transport…			

		
				
			

									Conspiracy or Confusion? The Duke of Kent
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				Conspiracy or Confusion? The Duke of Kent
								Controversial royal Prince George perished in a plane crash in 1942: was pilot error or sabotage to blame?…			

		
				
			

									Sikorski's Last Flight
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				Sikorski's Last Flight
								Conspiracy theories abound about the death of Wladyslaw Sikorski, the Polish PM whose plane crashed soon after take…			

		
			



			

		
		

			

	
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