Military Honors held for crew of World War II B-24 Liberator

CASPER, Wyo. —Taps reverberates across the wild grass and sagebrush as family and friends honor the 1945 crew of a B-24J Liberator during a memorial ceremony held at the crash site south of Casper, Wyoming, July 24, 2021. The crash site has been lost since the initial cleanup 76 years ago.

The Murchison crash is one of three lost historical crash sites in Wyoming that the Friends of the Wyoming Veterans Memorial Museum, a nonprofit organization that works with the Wyoming Veterans Memorial Museum, identified along with the Colorado Aviation Historical Society. The two organizations are researc...