The family is down in Antlers, OK, queen city of Pushmataha County for the labor day weekend. We eat good. And of course, we do some geocaching. We didn’t find any this trip instead SuperPizzaBoy and I set one. It is where two British airplanes crashed during a training flight in World War II on a remote mountainside in Southeast Oklahoma.
One plane belly landed and the the other nosedived in so hard that the plane lifted a boulder into what the locals have always called “a natural tombstone.” That is quite a story but it doesn’t end there.
54 years later. 1997, in the small town of Rattan, OK, some elementary school children took an interest in the story and sought some more information on what happened. They wrote a letter t the Library of Congress. A staff member there took an interest in helping the kids. The kids decided that a monument was in order.
To make a long story short, three years later, on the 57th anniversary of the crash, a monument was dedicated to the four Brits who died on the mountain. The kids arranged to have a many relatives of those men to be there for the ceremony.
I think it is a great story. The kids did a lot but they couldn’t have done it without the support of their teachers and other adults who helped them.
SuperPizzaBoy and I hid a cache and submitted the request. It hasn’t been approved yet. It will be called “AT-6 Crash Site”.
If you want to go see it for yourself, the cache and the monument are at N 34 deg 22.120 minutes and W 095 deg 38.616 minutes.
Be careful. I wouldn’t go there after dark.
