ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 195627
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Date: | Saturday 28 August 1943 |
Time: | |
Type: | North American B-25D Mitchell |
Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) |
Registration: | 41-30345 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Unknown |
Location: | Hansa Bay, Madang -
Papua New Guinea
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Dobodura airfield |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:As a result of bombs explosions of another B-25, a wing of the plane was ripped of and the plane crashed into the bay. All four occupants died in the crash.
Those lost in B-25D 41-30345 from the 8th BS 3rd BG;
1st Lt Robert B WIDENER (MIA/KIA), 8th BS
2nd Lt Bernard LAZARUS (MIA/KIA), 8th BS
Sgt James W LEFLER (MIA/KIA), 8th BS
Sgt Francis M MONAHAN (MIA/KIA), 8th BS
Sources:
https://www.pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/b-25/41-30345.html https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?id=270440799799648&story_fbid=487752928068433 Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
24-May-2017 10:05 |
gerard57 |
Added |
24-May-2017 10:37 |
gerard57 |
Updated [Narrative] |
28-Jan-2020 15:42 |
Uli Elch |
Updated [Operator, Location] |
27-Jun-2023 09:41 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [[Operator, Location]] |
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