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The Morgan Plane Crash: From Legend to Living History of World War II
The residents of Calvos de Randín kept a legend between fiction and reality for decades: the story about the early hours of 1944 when they woke up as “Morgan’s” plane crashed.
Manuel Ángel, Pepe, Iago, Luis, Celso, and David posing with a piece of the plane's metal sheeting on the Spanish-Portuguese border.
ALBA MOLEDO
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BRAIS LORENZO
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A municipality of 650 inhabitants kept a legend between fiction and reality for decades. It was the story that Aurora Mañá, a teacher and seamstress in Calvos de Randín, used to tell her grandchildren: In the early hours of February 22, 1944, the local residents woke up to explosions coming from the mountain. Their first thought was an invasion. But no, “Morgan’s” plane had just crashed.
