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B24 Liberator Crash Site (Guadalupe Peak), Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas
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On the last day of 1943, a Consolidated B-24D left Biggs Field in El Paso, Texas, on an instrument training mission, and struck a hill west of Pine Top. The accident was attributed to icing, and all five members of the crew were killed. Extensive wreckage exists at the site today
The B-24 is located in a remote location off the Bush Mountain Trail in the park's high country.
These sites are closed to the public except through limited access grants through special use permits. If you do travel to this crash site, please be respectful of the men that lost their lives in the crash, as well as the wreckage and site itself.
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