{"id":2021,"date":"2008-08-30T23:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-30T23:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=2021"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:17:24","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:17:24","slug":"at-6-crash-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=2021","title":{"rendered":"AT-6 Crash Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8220;a natural tombstone.&#8221; That is quite a story but it doesn&#8217;t end there.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>I think it is a great story. The kids did a lot but they couldn&#8217;t have done it without the support of their teachers and other adults who helped them.<\/p>\n<p>SuperPizzaBoy and I  hid a cache and submitted the request. It hasn&#8217;t been approved yet. It will be called &#8220;AT-6 Crash Site&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Be careful. I wouldn&#8217;t go there after dark.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/IMG_0083.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240465108781333794\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/IMG_0083-300x225.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> The monument.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/IMG_0082.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240464530015311234\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/IMG_0082-300x225.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_N9eiiCEvwfc\/SLneuu-q5RI\/AAAAAAAAAOE\/gli94YaI9lY\/s1600-h\/IMG_0081.JPG\"><\/a>The natural tombstone.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_N9eiiCEvwfc\/SLneu0yc7iI\/AAAAAAAAAOM\/mqw9bTwbt0w\/s1600-h\/IMG_0082.JPG\"><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/IMG_0084.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240464539163755202\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/IMG_0084-300x225.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> The plane.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The family is down in Antlers, OK, queen city of Pushmataha County for the labor day weekend. 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