In an open area on the side of the peak 200 feet from the summit.

A brass inscribed plaque attached to a Manx stone about 2 feet off the ground.  The memorial sits next to a flagpole in the middle of rhe crash site debris field.

On April 23, 1945, B-17 “ Dottie Jean” (43-38856), piloted by Captain Charles Ackerman of the 534^thBomber Squadron, 381^st Bomber Group, departed Ridgewell Airfield with a crew and passengers (31 service members)  destined to attend President Franklin Roosevelt’s funeral.  The plane was enroute to a base  (Nutts Corner) on Northern Ireland.  

The aircraft was on course flying in low cloud when it crossed the coast of the Isle of Man.  Shortly after the aircraft passed over Glen Mona and Corrany before flying into the steep southern slope of North Barrule about 200ft short of the summit of the hill.  The aircraft disintegrated with most of the airframe being consumed by fire.  The crash killed all 31 crew and passengers on the aircraft.

 Every year the American flag is flown there in a ceremony to honor the men.

The Crew and Passengers of “Dottie Jean” included:

CREW:

Charles Earl Ackerman Jr                 Captain           Pilot    

Edwin Augustus Hutcheson Jr         Flight Officer  Co-pilot

Martin Matyas                                   1st Lieutenant           Navigator       

John Philip Fedak                              1st Lieutenant           Bombardier   

Wayne Wendell Hart                                    1st Lieutenant           Air Observer  

David Howard Lindon                      Technical Sergeant   Flight Engineer          

Wesley Malcolm Hagen                    Technical Sergeant   Radio Operator          

Passengers:

Earl Graham Ammerman                 Corporal         Passenger      

Edward Gene Bailey                         Corporal         Passenger      

Andrew Robertson Barbour                        Private            Passenger      

Thomas Peter Flaherty                     Corporal         Passenger      

William Everett Geist                        Technical Sergeant   Passenger      

Edward Gelman                                Master Sergeant        Passenger      

Ralph Laverne Gibbs                                    Staff Sergeant            Passenger      

Joseph Lee Grey                                Technical Sergeant   Passenger      

Herbert Clarence Gupton Jr             Corporal         Passenger      

Irvin Russell Hargraves                    Sergeant         Passenger      

James Maxon Hinkle                         1st Lieutenant           Passenger      

Michael Joseph Kakos Jr                   Sergeant         Passenger      

Wayne Kenneth Manes                    Staff Sergeant            Passenger      

Jose Maximinio Martinez                  Sergeant         Passenger      

Alfred Mares Mata                            Staff Sergeant            Passenger (Gunner)

Leslie Howe Maxwell                        Corporal         Passenger      

Walter Alexander McCullough        T/5     Passenger      

Lawrence Edward McGhehey          1st Lieutenant           Passenger      

Andrew Piter Jr                                 T/4     Passenger      

Angelo Quagliariello                          Private First Class     Passenger      

Merle Morran Ramsowr                   Corporal         Passenger      

Joseph William Sullivan                    Technical Sergeant   Passenger      

Harry Super                                       Corporal         Passenger      

Edwin Charles Ullman                      Sergeant         Passenger      

The text on the plaque is written in English and reads:

ON THIS HILLSIDE AT 10:25AM ON APRIL 23, 1945,

A FLYING FORTRESS B17G-38856 CRASHED WITH THE LOSS OF 31 AMERICAN SERVICEMEN. THE AIRCRAFT BELONGED OT THE 381^ST HEAVY BOMBARDMENT GROUP 534^TH SQUADRON BASED AT RIDGEWELL IN ESSEX AND WAS ON A FERRY FLIGHT TO NUTTS CORNER IN N. IRELAND.

THIS MEMORIAL WAS ERECTED IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO LOST THEIR LIVES HERE AND IN OTHER AIRCRAFT WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN THESE HILLS, BY MAUGHOLD PARISH COMMISSIONERS  AND THE MANX AVIATION  PRESERVATION SOCIETY ON AUGUST 5^TH 1995.