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Silent Witnesses Memorial

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  1. YQX → Clarenville →

    A memorial on Route 1 outside Gander, near the start of this drive. The province's own tourism listing calls it a tranquil park, unveiled in 1990, dedicated to the lives lost in the Arrow Air crash of December 12, 1985. It describes an American soldier standing atop a massive rock holding the hands of a civilian boy and girl, each child holding an olive branch for the peacekeeping mission of the Screaming Eagles in the Sinai, who were going home for Christmas; the trio look to Fort Campbell, Kentucky, where a similar statue looks back. That listing also carries a season for the site — those dates are the province's to state, not this page's.

    Stopping here adds about 8 min and 2.4 km to that drive (1h 57m door to door).

  2. YYT → Lewisporte →

    A memorial on Route 1 outside Gander, near the far end of this drive. The province's own tourism listing calls it a tranquil park, unveiled in 1990, dedicated to the lives lost in the Arrow Air crash of December 12, 1985. It describes an American soldier standing atop a massive rock holding the hands of a civilian boy and girl, each child holding an olive branch for the peacekeeping mission of the Screaming Eagles in the Sinai, who were going home for Christmas; the trio look to Fort Campbell, Kentucky, where a similar statue looks back. That listing also carries a season for the site — those dates are the province's to state, not this page's.

    Stopping here adds about 8 min and 2.4 km to that drive (5h 8m door to door).

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What the map knows

While you're stopped here: Thomas Howe Demonstration Forest (1.5 km away) · Gander Old Town Site (4.6 km away) · North Atlantic Aviation Museum (5.7 km away)

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Where this pin comes from: OpenStreetMap node/1781093142 → — the same element every figure on this page is checked against.

Silent Witnesses Memorial on the YQX → Clarenville drive — the nearest door is YQX, 1h 57m door to door.Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Tiles by OpenFreeMap. Route line computed with OSRM.

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