Survey / Patrol / Reconnaissance

While in a night intruder reconnaissance mission, the twin engine aircraft was shot down by antiaircraft fire and crashed near Ichon. SAR efforts were negative.
Crew:
T/Sgt Bernard L. McManaman,
1st Lt Ernest C. Oliphant,
1st Lt William E. Roy.

Few minutes after its takeoff from Adak Airport, en route for a maritime patrol flight, the airplane hit the slope of a mountain located on the Little Tanaga Island. The wreckage was found about 20 miles southeast of Adak Airport and all 10 crew members were killed.
Crew:
Berdel A. Cook,
William H. Diana Jr.,
Frank M. Sueley,
George Y. Jenkins,
James G. Mallard,
Frank W. Mullick,
Marvin P. Huber,
Anthony C. Molina,
Wilford E. Tacie,
Donald R. McNair.

Crashed in flames while taking off from Shemya Airport, Aleutians Islands. All nine crew members were killed.
Crew:
Arthur Samuel MacFarlane, pilot,
William Horace Somerville,
John Frederick Jackson Jr.,
Roy Thomas Pevehouse,
Edward McCamley Jr.,
Charles Richard Post,
Teddy Richard Smith,
George H. Little,
James L. McDonnelly.

The crew was completing a maritime patrol flight over the Mediterranean Sea out from RAF Luqa. While flying at a very low height over the sea off the Libyan coast, the pilot realized the situation and decided to increase his altitude. While pulling on the control column, the base of the empennage hit the water surface, causing the aircraft to crash into the sea few miles off Tripoli. A crew member was killed while five others were rescued. The aircraft was lost.

The twin engine aircraft left Caravelas Airfield in the morning, taking part to a SAR operation after another airplane disappeared. En route, the contact was lost and as the aircraft failed to arrive in Fortaleza, SAR operations were conducted but eventually suspended few days later as no trace of the aircraft nor the three crew members was found. More than three years later, in October 1954, the wreckage was found in an isolated area located about 20 minutes of flight northwest of Caravelas.
Crew:
Cpt Antonio Filizola, pilot,
Cpt Decio Leopoldo de Sousa,
Sgt Wilton de Araujo Camara.

After touchdown at Kodiak NAS, the airplane went out of control, veered off runway and came to rest into a ditch. A crew member was killed and seven others were injured.

Shortly after takeoff from Port Lyautey Airbase (now Kénitra), while climbing, the twin engine aircraft went out of control and crashed into the sea off Mehdia. All six crew members were killed.
Crew (2F Squadron):
2nd Q/Mst Georges Nicolas 5.

While conducting a reconnaissance mission along the route #4 Kumchon - Sibyon, the twin engine aircraft was hit by antiaircraft fire and crashed in a field. Two crew members were killed while two others became PoW.
Crew:
Cpt Harold M. Beardall,
Cpt Steve J. Festini, †
Cpt Jack Lewis, †
S/Sgt Robert M. Wilkins.

Swerved on landing and came to rest. There were no casualties but the aircraft was written off. It was returning to Port-Lyautey (later Kénitra) Airport following a maritime patrol flight over the Atlantic Ocean.

Shortly after takeoff from the bay of Serui, the seaplane crashed into the sea. Three crew members were killed while four others were injured.