Aircraft Crash Site 

Liberator PBY -1-38753

Crashed 5TH September 1943

 

The location of the crash is at the top of Moel Feity at approximately 580m. The aircraft crashed on a routine night familiarisation training exercise and flew into high ground. On the 24th August 1944.

The crew of six were killed

Lieutenant John Glennon Byrnes

Lieutenant Neil Hobson Jnr

Ensign Andrew Manelski

Ensign Hyman P Holt Jnr

Ensign Franklin R Shipe

Ensign Donald F Kiester

Wreckage is scattered over a wide area in small pieces. Two memorial sites exist.