Bhubaneswar, July 27 (UNI) A memorial service was held at the Amarda Road Airstrip at Rasgovindpur, in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district on Wednesday for the fourteen airmen who had died in a crash here on July 26, 1945.
Historian Anil Dhir, Gandhian Aditya Patnaik, Dr Biswajit Mohanty, Morada MLA Rajkishore Das, Air Commodore Ran Singh the Air Officer Commanding of Kalaikunda Air Station and the Staff of the Gandhi Eye Hospital at Rangamatia, locals including school children paid homage to the airmen who have been forgotten in history. Wreaths were laid on the photos of these airmen.
Very few people know that the skies of Odisha had seen the crash of two aircraft which had collided against each other and resulted in the deaths of 14 airmen. On 26, July 1945 two British Royal Air Force B-24 Liberator four-engine bombers collided at low altitudes.