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Then he took the sleeper for Blackpool, his first stop in a tour of Lancashire and England's industrial Midlands. He made for Freckleton, where 61 people were killed in 1944 when a U.S. bomber crashed on the village. He chatted with the mothers of the dead children, helped shove toddlers down the playground slides, visited the communal graveyard...
Although it settles all legitimate claims for damage caused by its troops in noncombat activities, the U.S. Army does not pay for the things it destroys when it is actually waging war. When a U.S. Liberator, returning from a raid, crashed into the village school of Freckleton, England, U.S. soldiers carried the coffins of 36 children to a common grave. But someone else would have to pay for Freckleton's tragic damage...
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