This day in history-7 September 1943

We remember the crash of the B-24 Liberator at 7 Mile Drome - known to most as Jackson’s airfield, Port Moresby.

Sixty infantrymen of the 2/33rd Battalion and two drivers of the 158 General Transport Company lost their lives as a result of the crash. The eleven crew in “Pride of the Cornhuskers” also suffered a terrifying death.

A total of 73 men died, with over 90 subjected to horrific burns. It is without doubt, Australia’s worst aviation disaster, yet it remains one of the least documented and known incidents of the Second World War 'Lest We Forget'

Kokoda Historical will visit the site of the crash when we return on our non-trekking tour, Anzac Day 2017.