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WWII Air Crash Detectives
WWII Air Crash Detectives
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WWII Air Crash Detectives

6.3 / 10
2014
1 season
6 episodes
DocumentaryWar & Politics

Garth Barnard has a lifelong passion and unshakeable resolve to investigate how thousands of young Airmen from the Second World War died in catastrophic air accidents and training crashes.

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Cast

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Garth Barnard

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Aileen Downey

Seasons

  • Ep 1

    1.Lost & Confused - Sharp Top Mountain B-25 Crash

    24-11-2014

    Garth Barnard investigates shocking WWII air accidents, starting with a tragic B-25 training crash in Virginia that killed five crew.

  • Death in the Moonlight: Turweston Wellington Collision

    2.Death in the Moonlight: Turweston Wellington Collision

    01-12-2014

    In 1944, two Wellington bombers collided in mid-air over Northants. Garth Barnard investigates why 13 young trainees perished.

  • Australia's Worst Air Crash: Baker's Creek

    3.Australia's Worst Air Crash: Baker's Creek

    08-12-2014

    Australia's worst aviation accident happened in 1943, when 40 crew died in a B-17 bomber crash. Hear why this awful incident was hushed up.

  • Death on the Great Plains: Naper 28

    4.Death on the Great Plains: Naper 28

    15-12-2014

    Garth Barnard fact-finds to determine the cause of a terrible accident in Nebraska in 1944, when a transport plane crashed during a violent storm.

  • Conspiracy or Confusion? The Duke of Kent

    5.Conspiracy or Confusion? The Duke of Kent

    22-12-2014

    Controversial royal Prince George perished in a plane crash in 1942: was pilot error or sabotage to blame? Garth Barnard uncovers the truth

  • Sikorski's Last Flight

    6.Sikorski's Last Flight

    13-01-2015

    Conspiracy theories abound about the death of Wladyslaw Sikorski, the Polish PM whose plane crashed soon after take off in 1943. We explore this complex case.

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