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WWII Air Crash Detectives

Season 1

2014 · 6 episodes

  1. 1. Lost & Confused - Sharp Top Mountain B-25 Crash

    2014-11-24

    Garth Barnard investigates shocking WWII air accidents, starting with a tragic B-25 training crash in Virginia that killed five crew.

  2. 2. Death in the Moonlight: Turweston Wellington Collision

    2014-12-01

    In 1944, two Wellington bombers collided in mid-air over Northants. Garth Barnard investigates why 13 young trainees perished.

  3. 3. Australia's Worst Air Crash: Baker's Creek

    2014-12-08

    Australia's worst aviation accident happened in 1943, when 40 crew died in a B-17 bomber crash. Hear why this awful incident was hushed up.

  4. 4. Death on the Great Plains: Naper 28

    2014-12-15

    Garth Barnard fact-finds to determine the cause of a terrible accident in Nebraska in 1944, when a transport plane crashed during a violent storm.

  5. 5. Conspiracy or Confusion? The Duke of Kent

    2014-12-22

    Controversial royal Prince George perished in a plane crash in 1942: was pilot error or sabotage to blame? Garth Barnard uncovers the truth

  6. 6. Sikorski's Last Flight

    2015-01-13

    Conspiracy theories abound about the death of Wladyslaw Sikorski, the Polish PM whose plane crashed soon after take off in 1943. We explore this complex case.

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