A memorial service was held at the Rasgovindpur Airstrip on Sunday for the 14 airmen who had died in a crash on July 26, 1945.
War historian Anil Dhir and Aditya Patnaik of the Gandhi Eye Hospital and locals, including school children paid homage to the dead airmen.
On the July 26 1945, two British Royal Air Force B-24 liberator four-engine bombers, EW225 and EW247, collided at low altitude resulting in the death of 14 airmen, the crews of the two aircrafts.
Dhir researched the crash and was helped in his endeavour by Matthew J Poole from the USA who has done extensive research on the crash and had produced a comprehensive report.
Dhir also succeeded in locating some of the relatives of the dead airmen in India and abroad.
He requested the Odisha and West Bengal Governments to erect small memorials for these airmen at Amarda Road and the crash site.