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40 years after air tragedy, survivors gather to remember

March 21, 2022

Staff Report news@the woodstockindependent.com Nearly 100 people gathered Saturday to remember the 1982 mid-air explosion of a military plane that killed all 27 people northeast of Woodstock in Greenwood Township. […]

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