Naval Academy, was killed in a mid-air collision on a mission over Hokkaido in July 1945. Crommelin, one of the five Alabama brothers who graduated from the U. The Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum has two manufacturer's plates, and the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum has small pieces of the A6M. Leonard salvaged the manifold pressure gauge, air-speed indicator and the folding panel of the port wingtip, which he donated to the National Museum of the United States Navy. From the wreckage, Rear Admiral William N. Crommelin was taxiing the Mitsubishi A6M for take-off, a Curtiss SB2C Helldiver went out of control and crashed into it the Helldiver's propeller sliced the A6M to pieces. February The Akutan Zero was destroyed during a training accident at Naval Air Station San Diego, California. The wreckage was recovered to Victorville Army Airfield, California, in February 1945, and reclamation was complete on 9 February. Perry, Vehr and Cook died in the crash, and the remaining crew members bailed out. 30 January A Consolidated B-24L-1-FO Liberator, 44-49180, crashed west of Helendale, California. The plane was not found, and an investigation concluded that the pilot had attempted to push on through a heavy snowstorm rather than change course. The aircraft was one of two carrying a delegation from the House of Commons to visit British forces in Italy two members of Parliament, Robert Bernays and John Dermot Campbell, were killed. 23 January An RAF Expeditor was lost in the Adriatic Sea near Brindisi. The plane crashed when the ammunition-box cover detached at high speed and the aircraft lost a wing on the perimeter of Old Sarum Airfield, 2 nautical miles (3.7 km 2.3 mi) north-northeast of Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. McKenna AFC, elected a fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society in 1944 and appointed commandant of the Empire Test Pilots' School of the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment in March of that year, was killed during a familiarisation flight on Mustang Mk IV KH648. The airframe, recovered in 1989 by helicopter, is being restored at the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum in Reading, Pennsylvania. All aboard survived, with minor injuries. 10 January A Northrop P-61B-1-NO Black Widow, 42-39445, c/n 964 of the 550th Fighter Squadron, based at Hollandia, New Guinea, on a supposed proficiency flight (the pilot took three passengers, including a 20-year-old WAAC nurse), landed (largely intact) at the 5,000-foot (1,500 m) level of the Cyclops Mountains, a few miles from its airfield. The cause was attributed to icing, which made the aircraft tail-heavy. 2 January Admiral Bertram Ramsay, departing from Toussus-le-Noble, France in a Lockheed Hudson for a meeting with General Bernard Montgomery in Brussels, was killed with four other people when the aircraft crashed on takeoff. Restored at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, it was placed on display in McCloud Memorial Park at Elmendorf in April 2000. Coast Guard station at Attu and flown to Anchorage in an Alaska Air National Guard Lockheed C-130 Hercules. Recovered in June 1999, it was transported by helicopter to the U.S. After a salvage for parts, it was abandoned in place. The plane's propellers were torn off, its horizontal stabilizer was broken, and its left nacelle was buckled. A Lockheed P-38G-10-LO Lightning, 42-13400, c/n 222-7834, crash-landed on Attu Island in the Aleutians, 2,000 miles (3,200 km) west of Anchorage, Alaska, on a training mission the pilot, 2nd Lt. The bird made a hole in the plane's radiator, forcing a gear-up landing near Brussels. 54, flown by Leutnant Theo Nibel of the Grimbergen force, was downed during Unternehmen Bodenplatte when it struck a partridge. A Focke-Wulf Fw 190D-9, flown by Leutnant Theo Nibel, downed by a partridge near Brussels on 1 January 1945 1 January A Focke-Wulf Fw 190D-9 Black 12 of 10./ JG.
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