On 22 September 1943, a B-24D Liberator bomber crashed into a hillside approximately four hundred yards west of the site during inclement weather. That night eleven Army Air Force men lost their lives while in the service of their country: Flight Officer/Lieutenant Donald L. Kidder, Flight Officer/Lieutenant J. Singleton Waldrop, First Lieutenant Larue B. Lee, Second Lieutenant Joseph H. Beves, Second Lieutenant Cleatus B. Christopher, Second Lieutenant Frank C. Fischer, Second Lieutenant Arthur H. Lamker, Sergeant Marlin G. Chamberlin, Sergeant Howard R. Eicher, Sergeant Bobby S. Sanford, and Sergeant Chester J. Urbanowicz.