The Freckleton Air Disaster: When a Test Flight Killed 38 Schoolchildren

August 23rd, 1944, was only the second day of the school year at Holy Trinity School in Freckleton, Lancashire, England. The youngest students, aged four to six, were taught in a separate section of the school called the infants wing. The 41 young students had two teachers: Louisa Hulme, who was teaching her last class before retiring, and Jennie Hall, who had just started her first teaching job.…