Pilot  Lt. Col. David Campbell, O-392746 (C.O. 49th FG) (MIA/KIA)
MIA  June 3, 1944
MACR  6060

Mission History
One of 19 P-38s of the 49th FG that flew an escort mission over Babo, escorting B-25s.

The P-38s interected 15 to 20 Zekes and Oscars. 49th FG C.O. Lt. Col. David Campbell did not return from the mission

Two other 49th FG P-38 pilots saw Col. Campbell chasing an enem plane into a cloud, but nobody saw either plane come out. Another pilot saw plane parts falling out form the bottom of the cloud, and we suspect a collision inside the cloud.

Afterwards, an extensive search was made for Col. Campbell, and the Geelvink Bay area was combed, but no sighting was made of a crashed plane.

Reportedly, Campbell might have bailed out near Kasira and was taken POW and exicuted by the Japanese.

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