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Silver is the only known Women Airforce Service Pilots member to go missing during World War II. [111] December 15, 1944: UC-64 Norseman (44-70285) 3 [112] Unknown North Atlantic Ocean (English Channel) No trace of the aircrew, passengers or plane found, possibly overflew bomb jettisoning area.
17 November 1952 WD723 a Meteor aircraft from RAF Leeming went missing over the North Sea east of Sunderland. No trace of crew air aircraft was found. [17] [18] 30 December 1952 SW344 an Avro Lancaster B Mark III GR of No. 37 Squadron RAF crashed in Luqa, Malta after an engine failure. Three crew members and a civilian on the ground were killed ...
Ref The World War II Heritage of Ladd Field, CEMML, Colorado State University- Chapter 4.0 Cold Weather Test – p. 22; "One of the B-17s was lost in a February crash that took the lives of the eight men on board. They had been en route to Wright Field via Sacramento, carrying records and reports of the station.
The 492d was a "hard luck" B-24 group which had lost 52 aircraft to enemy action in only 89 days, suffering 588 men killed or missing. Rather than try to rebuild the shattered group, the group was stood down and the surviving members were reassigned to other units in theater.
This aircraft was later transferred to 44th Bomb Group and crashed in the Netherlands on 28 January 1945. Lockheed/Vega B-17G-85-VE Fortress Serial 44-8878 of the 836th Bomb Squadron over Paris. RAF Lavenham (also known as Cockfield) is a former World War II airfield in England.
In such as the Baltic, Beyelorussian, Kiev and Voronezh-Voroshilovgrad defensive operations, 20-30,000 small arms, 90-290 tanks, 200-520 guns and mortars and 30-100 combat aircraft were lost daily. Losses were also high during the Battle of Kursk and Berlin offensive, with 70-90 tanks, 90-210 guns and mortars and 25-40 aircraft lost each day." [20]
The Air Forces Memorial, or Runnymede Memorial, in Englefield Green, near Egham, Surrey, England is a memorial dedicated to some 20,456 men and women from air forces of the British Empire who were lost in air and other operations during World War II. [1] Those recorded have no known grave anywhere in the world, and many were lost without trace.
This is a list of previously missing aircraft that disappeared in flight for reasons that were initially never definitely determined. The status of "previously missing" is a grey area, as there is a lack of sourcing on both the amount of debris that needs to be recovered, as well as the amount of time it takes after the crash for the aircraft to be recovered while searching, to fit this ...