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The Mt. Beacon Eight – Eight US Navy Servicemen Who Lost Their Lives on the Western Slope of Mt. Beacon,

  • Beacon Historical Society (map)

David Rocco, principal researcher and coauthor of The Indestructible Man: The True Story of World War II Hero “Captain Dixie” presented an updated slide show about the eight US Navy servicemen who lost their lives in two separate plane crashes on the northern slope of Mt. Beacon (1935 and 1945).  One of the eight was Navy legend, Commodore Dixie Kiefer.