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Nov 16, 2009 11:03 pm US/Eastern

Inmates To Clear Hiking Trail

BARTON, Md. (AP) ―

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Inmates at the Western Correctional Institution will begin clearing a three-mile section of a hiking trail that will lead to a memorial of the crew of a B-52 that crashed.

The work is set to begin Tuesday on the Big Savage Hiking Trail.

The memorial will be dedicated to the crews of a B-52 Strato-Fortress that was carrying two unarmed thermonuclear bombs that crashed on Jan. 13, 1964. The wreckage was scattered over three counties and Maryland and Pennsylvania.

The memorial will be built next to private property in Garrett County near Barton. Currently, there is a stone cross in tribute to Maj. Robert Townley, one of three members of the five-man crew who died in the crash.