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 Roosevelts 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.