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| Date: | Saturday 7 November 1942 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina |
| Owner/operator: | United States Navy |
| Registration: | 02968 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Wallis Island -
 French Polynesia
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
Force landed, Wallis Island, South Pacific due to fuel exhaustion. Sunk by depth charges.
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