Children as Inadvertent Casualties of War

Like Aberfan, Freckleton in Lancashire should be a name on the lips of the nation. 

 

The village's wartime tragedy is one of the best kept secrets of the Second World War.

 

An American B-24 Liberator bomber on a test flight crashed during a storm onto the village school and café.

 

It destroyed the Holy Trinity Church of England's reception classroom. 

 

The children who were aged between four and six-years-old had only started school the day before.

 

Inside Out goes in search of the forgotten story of Freckelton, the victims and the survivors.

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