Consolidated PBY Catalina

Crashed into the St Johns River while performing a training mission out from the Jacksonville NAS. Six crew members were killed while six others were rescued.

The crew left Minneriya Airport in Sri Lanka for a maritime patrol mission of 18 hours over the Bay of Bengal. En route, an engine failed, forcing the crew to ditch the aircraft. All 11 occupants were rescued while the aircraft sank one hour after the accident.

While landing by night in the Pensacola Bay, the seaplane water looped and sank. A crew member was killed while six others were injured.

Shortly after take off from runway 32 by night, the pilot started a turn to the right when the aircraft hit the ground and crashed. Six crew members were killed while four others were injured.
Crew:
Lt Joseph F. Beach, pilot, †
Lt Albert M. Slingluff, †
A2C James G. Margiotis, †
A3C Arthur Mecalfe, †
Lt Jacob C. Phares, †
William B. Turner, †
William Pinkley Merck,
Robert Lewis Livellara,
Ferdinand Francis Deeley,
William E. Thompson.

During a convoy mission, the pilot was forced to attempt an emergency landing for unknown reason. The seaplane crashed in a river near Belém and some debris were found five days later, on December 3. All ten crew members were killed.

Ensign Johnson was crewman in a Navy PBY-5A that had been running baselines for calibrating new LORAN stations in Alaska. While attempting to enter Unalaska Bay for a landing at Dutch Harbor, during weather conditions of low visibility and rain, the pilot made a landfall in the bay which he did not recognize. Feeling that a turn would probably result in a collision with a mountainside, the pilot elected to land in this bay. After readying the aircraft for a water landing he proceeded to make a normal landing, but was unaware of the height of the ground swells (approximately 5-feet). Immediately after contacting the water, the aircraft nosed into a ground swell and broke apart at the pilot's compartment. The wing broke off and the plane filled with water and sank. ENS Charles E. Johnson was killed, along with two Navy crewmen. The ten others aboard, including the pilot, were injured but survived.

The float plane left Killadeas NAS, Northern Ireland, on a training mission over the Atlantic Ocean when he crashed in unknown circumstances into the ocean. No trace of the aircraft nor the 9 crew members was ever found.
Crew (131st OTU):
F/O Francis Peter Graves,
Sgt Robert Anderson,
Sgt Edwin Alfred Dennis Barnes,
Sgt Earl Darragh Morrison,
Sgt Alexander Fordyce Sutherland,
Sgt Allan Douglas Warder,
Sgt John Glynne Williams,
Sgt Owen Douglas Hodgkison,
Sgt John George Ley.

Crashed into the sea off Malaita Island during a maritime patrol mission. Two crew members were rescued while five others were killed.

During a maritime patrol mission, while circling around a merchant ship, the seaplane went out of control and crashed into the Gulf of Mexico, killing all eight crew members.

Disappeared en route from North Island-Halsey Field NAS (San Diego) to Kaneohe Bay NAS, Hawaii. No trace of the aircraft nor the crew was ever found.