Mt. Greylock, Williamstown, Massachusetts – May 8, 1943
Little is known about this accident.
On May 8, 1943, a U. S. Navy aircraft with two men aboard took off from the Quonset Point Naval Air Station in Rhode Island. The pilot was a British flight officer, who had an American observer aboard. The names of the men and the type of aircraft is unknown. At some point the plane crashed into Mt. Greylock in Williamstown, Mass., and both men were killed.
Officials from Westover Air Field in Chicopee arrived at the scene and removed the wreckage.
Source:
The Berkshire County Eagle, “Two Died In Navy Plane On Greylock”, May 12, 1943. (Article submitted by Eric Wiberg, author and historian.)
