American Legion B-17 Veterans Memorial Park
Sheridan, Ark., Post 30 spearheaded an effort to build a memorial honoring nine U.S. Army Air Forces personnel killed in a crash at the site in 1943. (Photos by Steven B. Brooks and provided)![The B-17F Flying Fortress flown by Crew No. 18. The plane crashed March 12, 1943.](https://www.legion.org/sites/legion.org/files/styles/scale800w/public/legion/photo-album/Old%20photo.jpg?itok=JvOTSitA)
The B-17F Flying Fortress flown by Crew No. 18. The plane crashed March 12, 1943.
![The original memorial, erected in 1943.](https://www.legion.org/sites/legion.org/files/styles/scale800w/public/legion/photo-album/Swamp.png?itok=PRE1tysK)
The original memorial, erected in 1943.
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