Oxford Vets’ Home to host B-24 crash memorial presentation Thursday
OXFORD – On Veterans’ Day, community members are invited to join the residents of the New York State Veterans’ Home in Oxford in honoring the crew of a B-24J bomber which went down in a training mission during World War II. The presentation will take place at 3 p.m. on Thursday at the NYS Veterans’ Home, 4207 State Hwy 220 in Oxford.
The centerpiece of the program will be a multi-media presentation created in following a memorial dedication at the Kiowa, Colo. crash site in 2008.
“It’s a nice documentation of the crash and a rememberance of the crew,” said Director of Activities Allan Hopson, who helped to organize the event.
According to Hopson, all 10 of the B-24’s crew members perished in the crash, including Martin Affeldt. Affeldt was the uncle of former Vets’ Home resident Carol Gazda. Gazda’s husband Tom, himself a Vietnam veteran, worked with a professional videographer to create the DVD presentation, as he and his wife were unable to travel to the event, held on Aug. 9, 2008, exactly 64 years after the crash.
Gazda said his wife knew her uncle had died in a training accident, they didn’t know the specifics of the incident until three years ago, when he contacted an aviation archeologist in Colorado. They found they weren’t the only ones looking for the wreckage of the B-24J Liberator, serial number 42-78535. Also searching for answers was Chuck Marvel, a former airman who had lost a close friend in the crash. Marvel’s son Bill helped organize the memorial dedication, along with Marv Maul, who witnessed the actual crash in 1944. Families of 5 of the 10 crew members participated in the memorial.
For more information on the crash, visit www.b24memorial.com. For information on Thursday’s presentation, contact the Vets’ Home Activities Department at 843-3100.
The centerpiece of the program will be a multi-media presentation created in following a memorial dedication at the Kiowa, Colo. crash site in 2008.
“It’s a nice documentation of the crash and a rememberance of the crew,” said Director of Activities Allan Hopson, who helped to organize the event.
According to Hopson, all 10 of the B-24’s crew members perished in the crash, including Martin Affeldt. Affeldt was the uncle of former Vets’ Home resident Carol Gazda. Gazda’s husband Tom, himself a Vietnam veteran, worked with a professional videographer to create the DVD presentation, as he and his wife were unable to travel to the event, held on Aug. 9, 2008, exactly 64 years after the crash.
Gazda said his wife knew her uncle had died in a training accident, they didn’t know the specifics of the incident until three years ago, when he contacted an aviation archeologist in Colorado. They found they weren’t the only ones looking for the wreckage of the B-24J Liberator, serial number 42-78535. Also searching for answers was Chuck Marvel, a former airman who had lost a close friend in the crash. Marvel’s son Bill helped organize the memorial dedication, along with Marv Maul, who witnessed the actual crash in 1944. Families of 5 of the 10 crew members participated in the memorial.
For more information on the crash, visit www.b24memorial.com. For information on Thursday’s presentation, contact the Vets’ Home Activities Department at 843-3100.
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