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SOUTH PORTLAND (AP) -- Sixty-five years ago, an Army bomber crashed in a trailer park in South Portland. It was the deadliest plane crash in Maine history. The July 11, 1944 event is being marked by a ceremony to remember the victims at 11 a.m. Saturday at the entrance to Redbank Village on Westbrook Street in South Portland. Nineteen people died when the plane crashed into what was then the Redbank Trailer Park. Among those killed were the pilot, 23-year old Philip Russell of South Portland, his co-pilot, and 17 people on the ground, most of them young mothers and children. A fundraising effort is under way for a memorial to the victims. The city of South Portland has donated land for the memorial.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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