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Aircraft crash sites
on Drigmorn Hill and Craignairny
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05 These pictures were taken on 9th October 2010 and show the location of the crash site on Drigmorn Hill where a Liberator LB-30 crashed on 14th September 1942. The crew of eight were killed and five of them were buried at Kirkinner Cemetery near to the former RAF station at Wigtown. In the first picture we are looking NE across the little lochan on Drigmorn which is called Fuffock - with Red Gairy in the distance. Allan is holding a piece of the wreckage which was lying there. In the second picture below we are looking NW towards Curleywee (on the left of the picture) and Merrick is just above Allan's head in the distance. The grid reference given by Dumfries Aviation Museum for this crash site is (NX471749) which would actually place the site nearer to Red Gairy. |
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In November 2013 we were heading up from the Nick of the Dungeon onto Craignairny on a bitterly cold stormy day when we came across the wheel shown in the pictures below and we realised we were at an aircraft crash site that we knew nothing about. On later investigation we discovered that it is from an Auster J/1U Workmaster and it crashed here in 1963 with 2 men being killed. The National Grid reference would be NS455849. |
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