Excerpt from the speech of the mayor of Lormaye, Bertrand Thirouin, on the occasion of the commemoration of all the crashes on the town:
On July 14, 1944, it was the Coulombs railway bridge that several bombers had to destroy. Clarence John MOORE is the second in a group of four. He is on target when the bomb dropped by the plane in front explodes. The breath unbalances his plane and the P 38 Lightning turns around and crashes on the Malepart café in Lormaye. His friends make this terrible report on their return to England. The pilot is killed. He is buried in the American cemetery of Colleville-Saint-Laurent-sur-mer in Calvados.
(Transmitted by Claude Dannau)
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