Hillsgrove Army Air Field, Warwick, RI, June 28, 1944
P-47C Thunderbolt
U.S. Air Force Photo
At 5:05 p.m. on June 28, 1944, a U.S. Army P-47 (Ser # 42-22591) took off from Hillsgrove Army Air Field on a routine training mission and crash-landed a few hundred yards north of the field. The pilot, Daniel S. Miles, was relatively unhurt, and got away from the plane before it burst into flames.
Source: Providence Journal, “Plane Hits House;Man, Wife Burned”, June 29, 1944, pg. 1 (The headline refers to another accident in North Stonington Connecticut. )
Lawrence Webster – Aviation Historian
