The first American P-38 Aircraft to land at a new emergency airfield near Salerno, Italy, crashes into a water truck at the ed...
Slate states: “Dust causes crash. P-38 plows into water truck. Pilot escapes. Two killed.” Members of the U.S. Army 817th Engineers Battalion, who have been building an emergency airfield , near Salerno, Italy, during World War 2, respond when the first P-38 airplane to land at the field, crashes into a water truck at the side of the dirt runway. Smoke rises from the crash scene. Camera focuses on the burning P-38 aircraft and the water truck. Soldiers use improvised slings to move the bodies of two victims away from the crash site. Meanwhile, other P-38 aircraft continue to land at the field. Smoke continues to billow from the burning P-38 airplane.
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