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| Date: | Friday 18 January 1946 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Consolidated PBY-6A Catalina |
| Owner/operator: | United States Navy |
| Registration: | 64029 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 13 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | off Wake Island -
 U.S. Minor Outlying Islands
|
| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
Force landed near Wake Island. Crew rescued, sank by gunfire.
All 13 occupants were rescued.
Sources:
San Bernardino Sun 22 January 1946, p1
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