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Monteagudo air crash

Calvos de Randín, Limia, Ourense

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Monteagudo air crash

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On 22 February 1944 a British aircraft crashed on Mount Monteagudo and all six of its occupants died; the event became fixed in the memory of a border district crossed by smuggling during the world war. It was a Lockheed Hudson of No. 48 Squadron of the Royal Air Force, flying from Gibraltar to England together with twelve other aircraft: the squadron, which had been in Gibraltar since December 1942 carrying out maritime patrols in the Mediterranean, was returning to re-equip with Douglas Dakota aircraft ahead of Operation Overlord. On that same mission another Hudson crashed in the Portuguese Serra da Estrela, near Loriga, and all its occupants also died.

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