A low altitude mid-air collision of two World War-II aircrafts that left 14 airmen dead over the skies of Odisha seven decades ago would have been relegated to deep crevices of history, but for efforts of a group of people quietly paying tribute and keeping the memory alive.
Two British Royal Air Force B-24 Liberator four-engine bombers, which were based at the Amarda Road airfield and were part of a six-plane contingent from the Air Fighting Training Unit, collided at low altitude during a training exercise on July 26, 1945.
The 14 airmen who died in the crash were of different nationalities such as British, American, Dutch, New Zealander, Australian; only one among them was Indian.
