Date:	Monday 8 December 1941
Time:	c. 0600
Type:	Curtiss P-40C
Owner/operator:	United States Army Air Forces (USAAF)
Registration:	41-13337
MSN:	16113
Fatalities:	Fatalities: / Occupants:
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Bellows Field, Oahu, HI -   United States of America
Phase:	Standing
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:
Destination airport:	Bellows Field, HI

Narrative:
1. Destroyed in Japanese air raid.
2. Actually damaged in a taxiing accident on the morning of 8Dec41, when the 44th Pursuit Squadron which had eight P-40s in service at the time, was to mount a dawn patrol. One aircraft ran into another in the dark while taxiing at the end of the runway. Aircraft "337" is in photo 111-SC-127012, NARA II, College Park, Maryland. This same aircraft was wrecked by 2nd Lt. George A. Whitman on 22Jul41 as aircraft 105/18P.

1. JF Baugher
2. 8Dec41 diary entry of Cpl. Victor H. Peterson, 44th Pursuit Squadron, Aiken Collection, National Museum of the Pacific War, 44PS folder; Aircraft Accident Report for 41-13337, 22Jul1941, AFHRA.

Bellows Field, Oahu, T.H., circa 8 Dec41 (Public Domain)

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
06-Jan-2012 13:30	Uli Elch	Added
11-Nov-2020 19:39	Mike Wenger	Updated [Date, Time, Aircraft type, Location, Source, Narrative, Photo]
10-Jun-2023 04:56	Ron Averes	Updated [[Date, Time, Aircraft type, Location, Source, Narrative, Photo]]