Cemetary : Longway West-Terschelling, # Harlingen, ## Pietersbierum, ### Nes Ameland, The Netherlands. personnel from eastern air stations to Montreal have sighted wreckage off the mouth of the Saguenay river, and it is feared the plane crashed into the St. Lawrence, R.C.A.F. Cemetary : Workum, # Hindelopen, ## Stavoren, The Netherlands. K.I.A: Sgt W.A. Homebase :RAF Holme-on-Spalding moor,Yorkshire UK The plane was from Pendleton on a gunnery training mission Chapman (24) Pilot, Sgt J. Condron (23) Wireless operator / Air Gunner, P/O R.F. Four crewmembers washed ashore at various locations. The uncontrollable plane went down and crashed between Harlingen and Achlum. Buchanan (31) Pilot RAAF, P/O A.L. C.L. if (navigator.appName == "Netscape") document.write(" "); K.I.A: Flt.Sgt. K.I.A: 1Lt. Target: Kassel, Germany Target: Gelsenkirchen, Germany. Shortly after noon on May 4, 1945, a PBY-5A Catalina left Alameda, California, with a crew of eleven, and four depth charges. document.write(" "); Brown# (35) Navigator, P/O G.A. Under constriction M.I.A: Abbreviations : if (navigator.appName == "Netscape") Kirkham (21) Navigator RCAF. Target: D.C.H. K.I.A: Flt. The cause of the crash was never determined (Mireles 2006). The pilot ordered his crew to bail out, and three men exited through the bomb bay into the night. Wilkin (23) Pilot RCAF, Flight Officer J.W.H. The Messerschmitt 109G, becomes covered, uncontrollable and pours into the soft clay. K.I.A: Flight officer M.G. W.J.Merrigan (20) Airgunner, Flt Sgt. 03-10-1943 23:22Lt Sgt. if (navigator.appName == "Netscape") 22-12-1943 15:15Lt A second incident involved a United States Marine Corps (USMC) Grumman F4F, which crashed on Anacapa Island on an unknown date during the WWII (Macha and Jordan 2002). Extensive wreckage exists at the site, WWII Military Aircraft Incidents in National Park Service Units: A Preliminary Inventory. document.write(" "); All the other eight aviators in the B-24J perished along with all eight airmen on the B-24D (Mireles 2006). Colonial Beach, VA Military Plane Crash, June 1921. Subsequently Solheid and his co-pilot managed to land their aircraft at Palm Springs (Farabee 2005; Mireles 2006). July 21 – Serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II, American athlete and two-time Olympic champion Charley Paddock dies in the crash of a Navy plane near Sitka in the Territory of Alaska. Cameron (20) Pilot RCAF, Sgt J.W. K.I.A: Flt.Sgt. document.write(" "); P.O.W: Sgt C.H.E. Longway Cemetary West-Terschelling if (navigator.appName == "Netscape") Fate: The Lancaster was perhaps noticed by the German radar post "TIGER" at Terschelling and send an nightfighter from Fliegerhorst Leeuwarden 4./NJG.1, flown by Luftwaffe Ace Hptm HANS JOACHIM JABS and his crew. Lancaster Mk.III Target: Naval instalation at Wilhelmhafen, Germany On December 9, 1942, the aircraft was involved in a weather reconnaissance flight (such flights were considered combat missions). Angus (..), Flt.Sgt. Wales (..) Navigator Target: Laying of mines (called Vegetables) at the Terschelling area. He headed the group in 1925. headquarters announced today. Lindsey (..) Pilot. The aircraft had apparently struck the mountain near the top of a 12,500 feet ridge, then slid down into the lake. Fate: Hit by German FLAK at Harlingen and crashed at 18:45Lt into the Wadden Sea near Roptazijl, North of Harlingen. Fate: During an night mission at the South West Fryslan, the right engine was on fire, Linke and Czybulka had to bail out, Linke was killed during the bailout, after hitting the tailsection. Lyon (21) Observer,Sgt W.T. document.write(" "); Target: City of Dortmund, Germany. Coleman (20) Turret Gunner, P.J. The 1943 Gibraltar Liberator AL523 crash was an aircraft crash that resulted in the death of General Władysław Sikorski, the commander-in-chief of the Polish Army and Prime Minister of the Polish government-in-exile. (Record Group 18) 1903-64 (bulk 1917-47) OVERVIEW OF RECORDS LOCATIONS Table of Contents 18.1 ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY 18.2 GENERAL RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER 1914-18 18.2.1 General records 18.2.2 Records of the Planning Section of the Equipment Division 18.2.3 Records of the Balloon Section of the Air Division 18.3 RECORDS OF THE DIVISION OF MILITARY … JA714/CF-R G.W.E. K.I.A: Sgt. The aircraft crashed after having feathered one propeller (indicating an engine failure), killing all six crewmen (C. Fuller, pers. P.O.W: P/O J. Bolderson (31) Wireless operator B. Wojno (28) 2nd Pilot, Sgt K. Bednarski# (27) Air Gunner, Sgt K. Germansinski## (29) Wireless operator / Air Gunner . On the first leg to Winslow, Arizona, on August 11, 1940, the aircraft developed engine trouble over Lake Mead. P.O.W: 2Lt L. Rogers (..) Bomb Aimer, 2Lt K.S. Fate: On the way back to their homebase Linton-on-Ouse, the bomber was noticed by German radar post "TIGER" at Terschelling , and send an nightfighter of the type Messerschmidt BF-110 from Fliegerhorst Leeuwarden 4.NJG.1 flown by Luftwaffe Ace Hptm Helmut Lent the Halifax was shot down and crashed at the Haulewei, 1km west of Wijnaldum. P.O.W: Sgt C.H.E. K.I.A: P/O J.T. Cemetary : Harlingen, The Netherlands. German military war Cemetary reburied: Grave 45, box AR, row 2, Ysselstein, The Netherlands. Tilburg## (25) Pilot. Aircraft accident reports can be found in the Minutes of Meetings of the Civil Aeronautics Authority 1938-40 and the Civil Aeronautics Board, 1940-78 (MLR A1 E-34A, boxes 1-511) in the Office of the Secretary. Courtesy of Janis Kozlowski. Reston, VA Private Plane Crash, Nov 1977. K.I.A: Sgt W.A. J.M. I.R.V. Folkner (..) Left Waist Gunner, Staff.Sgt A.P. Chapman (25) Air Gunner RAAF, Sg P.M. Cosgrove (..) Air Gunner, Flt.Sgt. Porter (21) Air Gunner, Sgt L. Wild (..) Navigator. Cemetary : Longway West-Terschelling, The Netherlands. Twelve airmen died in the crash. Sgt A Little, P/O R P Mason, Sgt K J Fielding, Sgt D Bell and Sgt J Davidson were all killed. An Army C-47 transport plane (right) pulls the doomed Robertson glider from the runway at Lambert on Aug. 1, 1943. document.write(" "); Cemetary : Harlingen, The Netherlands, # Reichswald forest war Cemetery, Germany. Target: Attack Sorpe Dam South West of Arnsberg, Germany Operation "CHASTISE" Workum Cemetary Moore (..) Wireless operator / Air Gunner, P/O C.F. Homebase : RAF Dunholme Lodge A.E. K.I.A: Sgt J. Buntin (19) Tail Gunner, Sgt J.C. Owen (24) Air Gunner. Folkner (..) Left Waist Gunner, Staff.Sgt A.P. Le Blanc (22)lost all control due to the damage, and crashed North East of the village in an field. Mars Bluff, SC Airliner Crashes In Swamp, Sep 1945. K.I.A: Unteroffizier Georg Wilhelm (21) Fate: Returning from a succesful bombing mission on Dortmund the Lancaster was intercepted over the IJsselmeer by a nightfighter of the type Messerschmidt BF-110G4 (4857 "G9+C2) from the 4./NJG.1, from Fliegerhorst Leeuwarden flown by Commander 12.NJG1 OBLT Lothar Linke (33) and his radar operator Walter Czybulka, during this interception fired OBLT Linke with his guns, the Lancaster B.A. Twelve airmen died in the crash. Target: Special operation. 28-07-1943 02:50Lt document.write(" "); A. Coull (19) Bomb Aimer, Redoubt, Alaska, which is now within Lake Clark National Park. All five other men on the aircraft also die. Myrtle Beach, SC (Off Shore) Bomber Crash, June 1943. K.I.A: P/O A.G. Fletcher (20) Bomb Aimer RCAF, P/O H.E. McFarlane (22) Air Gunner, Sgt F.A. document.write(" "); November 1943 Fate: Returning from the bombing mission the Halifax was perhaps noticed by the German radar post "TIGER" at Terschelling and send an nightfighter from the 4./NJG.1, flown by Luftwaffe Ace OFW HEINZ VINKE and Uffz. 03/01/1943 Whitley EB389 of 24 OTU exploded while on a bombing exercise and crashed at Cherington. Cemetary : Harlingen, # Pietersbierum, ## Holwerd, The Netherlands. Deck (20), N.W. McKinley (Figure 1). The B-24D participated in 18 bombing missions in the Aleutian Islands. W7448/KM-T Fate: Both the pilot, Lt. Ed Clark, and co-pilot, Lt. Joe Donaldson, sustained injuries, but were eventually rescued from the remote site (Farabee 2005). Forty-four men traversed over twenty miles of rugged terrain to reach the crash site on November 10, to find the plane buried in ten feet of snow. document.write(" "); Cemetary : Longway West-Terschelling, # Den Burg, Texel, The Netherlands, ## Esbjerg, Denmark. K.I.A: Flt.Sgt. if (navigator.appName == "Netscape") Fate: Crashed returning from a bombing mission at Bremen Germany, when the B-17F "Holy Mackeral" was hit by enemy FLAK that caused explosions on the plane. Small (..) Right Waist Gunner, Staff.Sgt J.Y. Cemetary : Longway West-Terschelling, # St.Jacobiparochie, ## Breda, The Netherlands. Target: Osnabruck, Germany. K.I.A: Sgt A.E. King (32) Wireless operator, Sgt. Wounded: Unterofficer H.F. Lange (23) Radio operator. M.I.A: G.A.Kinney (21) Tail Gunner, Sgt S. Martire (..) Back Turrut Gunner, Sgt R.E Sudberry (21) Waist Gunner Bulger (..) Bomb Aimer, Tech.Sgt G.H. The Lancaster crashed into the North Sea 10Km North West of Terschelling. On November 18, 1942, a Beech AT-7 Navigator from Mather Field, near Sacramento, struck the Mendel Glacier in Darwin Canyon. Scattered debris from the crash is still visible in the park (Macha and Jordan 2002). 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