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Listing of Losses April 16, 1944, the largest operational losses suffered during WWII.
(PARTIAL LIST)
300 5th Air Force planes were
sent to bomb & strafe Hollandia airfields and installations. A weather front of severe thunderstorms
blocked their path back to their bases at Nadzab, Gusap, and Finchafen and Lae. By the end of the day, 37
aircraft were destroyed or missing, out of fuel, or crashing due
to navigational errors and the weather. Most of the planes lost were A-20's and B-25's,
forced down near or at Sadior. These
unserviceable wrecks were abandoned at the strip.
- A-20G "Hell'N Pelican II" 42-86786
- A-20G 42-86615
- A-20G 43-86563
- A-20G "Joy Baby" 43-9039
- A-20G 42-86615
- A-20G 43-9401
- A-20G "Lady Constance" 43-9628
- A-20G 43-9491
- A-20G 43-9629
- A-20G "In The Mood" 43-9669
- A-20G "The Texan" 43-9098
- B-24J 42-100225
- B-24J "Here T'is" 42-72946
- B-25D "Fer de Lance" 41-30527
- F-5A 42-67350 6th PRG 26th PRS 1st Lt. Donald Christian
- P-38H "Corky Jr" 42-66668 8th FG 36th FS 2nd Lt. Robert Keown
- P-38J 42-104352 Tail Number 182 475th FG 433rd FS 2nd Lt. Joe Price
- P-38J 42-104310 Tail 175 475th FG 433rd FS Lt. Stanley Northrup
- P-38H Serial
Number 42-66555
- P-38H 42-66832 8th FG 80th FS 1st Lt. Lawrence Reeves
- P-38H (Serial unknown) 8th FG 36th FS Lt. Eugune Zielinski
- P-38J 42-104015 475th FG 433rd FS Lt. Robert Tomberg
- P-38J 42-104351 475th FG 433rd FS 1st Lt. Calvin G. Wire
- P-38J 42-104355
- P-38J 42-104385
- P-38J 42-104390 475th FG 433rd FS 1st Lt. Louis Longman
- P-38J 42-104381 475th FG 433rd FS 1st Lt Lewis Yarbrough
- P-38J 42-67594 475th FG | 432nd FS 2nd Lt. Robert Hubner
- P-38J 42-67605 475th FG | 432nd FS 2nd Lt. Jack Luddington
- P-39 (serial unknown) 71st TRG | 100th TRS
- P-47D "Dirty Old Man" (serial unknown) 348th FG | 342nd FS
- B-25D "Tinkie" 41-30315
References
Black Sunday by Michael Claringbould
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