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| Date: | Saturday 13 October 1945 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47B-20-DK (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | United States Army Air Force - USAAF |
| Registration: | 43-49754 |
| MSN: | 27015/15570 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | between Okinawa and Laoag -
 Pacific Ocean
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Okinawa-Yontan Field |
| Laoag Airport (LAO/RPLI) |
Missing en route Okinawa-Yontan Airfield to Laoag, Philippines.
Sources:
The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
MACR
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