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By Cosmos Mariner, August 23, 2022
Bruning Air Field Pilots Killed near Naper, Nebraska Marker
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Acree, William • Albert, John • Armstrong, William • Arnett, Willard • Blakeslide, Herbert • Boekman, George • Bohle, Robert • Brown, Jack • Brown, Richard • Burke, James • Clarkson, Donald • Hemphill, Lloyd • Hutslar, Orson • Johnson, Arthur • . . . — — Map (db m206988) HM |
| | Bruning Army Air Field, located northeast of here, was one of eleven army airfields in Nebraska during World War II. Construction began in September 1942 on 1,480 acres of farmland, for which the government paid twelve landowners $73,400. The field . . . — — Map (db m206989) HM |
| | On August 3, 1944, a C-47 transport carrying twenty-eight men of the U.S. Army Air Forces crashed in a ravine six miles southwest of Naper during a severe storm. There were no survivors. It was the largest single military air disaster in Nebraska . . . — — Map (db m70623) HM |
May. 14, 2024
