Honor guard members, left, with the 316th Wing at Joint Base Andrews, Md., raise the Icelandic and American flags during a ceremony in Vogar, Iceland, May 3, 2023. The ceremony honored the 14 American crew and passengers, including Lt. Gen. Frank Maxwell Andrews, that died in a B-24 Liberator bomber crash in 1943 on nearby Mount Fagradalsfjall.
U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Michael B. Keller
Attendees listen to President of Iceland Gudni Th. Johannesson during a re-dedication ceremony for the B-24 Liberator bomber “Hot Stuff” Monument in Volgar, Iceland. The ceremony marked the 80th anniversary of the “Hot Stuff’s” crash in which all but one of its crew members and passengers died.
U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Michael B. Keller
Honor guard members, left, with the 316th Wing at Joint Base Andrews, Md., raise the Icelandic and American flags during a ceremony in Vogar, Iceland, May 3, 2023. The ceremony honored the 14 American crew and passengers, including Lt. Gen. Frank Maxwell Andrews, that died in a B-24 Liberator bomber crash in 1943 on nearby Mount Fagradalsfjall.
U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Michael B. Keller
Attendees listen to President of Iceland Gudni Th. Johannesson during a re-dedication ceremony for the B-24 Liberator bomber “Hot Stuff” Monument in Volgar, Iceland. The ceremony marked the 80th anniversary of the “Hot Stuff’s” crash in which all but one of its crew members and passengers died.
U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Michael B. Keller
Icelandic and U.S. citizens held a ceremony on May 3, 2023, to mark the 80th anniversary of the B-24 Liberator bomber “Hot Stuff” crash that killed 14 of its 15 passengers and crew, including Lt. Gen. Frank Maxwell Andrews.
Andrews was the Commander of the European Theater of Operations at the time of the crash and was also known as a strong advocate for a separate branch of the military dedicated to airpower, which later evolved into the U.S. Air Force. In 1945, Camp Springs Army Air Field, Maryland, was renamed Andrews Air Force Base in honor of Andrews and later became Joint Base Andrews, which it is still named today.
