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Soldier Creek B-29 Crash Memorial

Benton, KY

A black stone memorial near Soldier Creek remembers a B-29 Superfortress that crashed in this area on July 1, 1945. Nine men were killed and one survived, turning an otherwise quiet rural roadside into the marker for a largely forgotten wartime aviation disaster.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: waymarking.com/waymarks/WMB0M5_Soldier_Creek_B_29_Crash_Memorial_Marshall_Co_Kentucky

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