A brand new Historical Marker has been added to Highway 83 at Wood Lake, Nebraska. The marker commemorates the lives of two pilots who were killed while doing a training exercise. The planes crashed scattering debris over a large area in Cherry County.
The pilots, 1st Lt. John B. Beatty and 2nd Lt. Earnest W. Fanslau, were doing an instrument flight training and had "gone under the hood" when the crash occurred February 5, 1944 at 10:45 a.m.
The Historical Marker was dedicated Saturday, May 29, 2011, after the Memorial Day observation in Wood Lake.
Local individuals thought these WWII pilots' lives needed to be recognized and raised the needed funds to pay for the marker.
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