Flight

The airplane departed Fayetteville-Pope AFB to Providence, Rhode Island, with an intermediate stop at Hemsptead Plains-Mitchell Field, Long Island, NY. On board were four crew members and 15 paratroopers. En route to Rhode Island, the crew encountered poor weather conditions with fog. Due to low visibility, the crew lost his orientation and the airplane went off the prescribed flight route and drifted to the north. At an altitude of 2,200 feet, the airplane collided with trees and crashed in a wooded area located on the Garnett Peak, some 1,6 km east of Peru. All four crew members and 12 paratroopers were killed. Three others survived but were severely wounded.
Those killed were:
Crew:
2nd Lt Joseph J. Fields Jr.,
S/Sgt Robert W. Lamon,
S/Sgt Charles M. Scott III,
Cpl Austin W. Weeces.
Passengers:
Hyman B. Flinkman,
Sam B. Hathorn,
John H. Kelley,
Frank A. Lastosky,
Joseph C. Neurohr,
Jack E. Palmer,
Gardner W. Plain,
Stanley L. Racine,
Norman Sands,
Steve L. Schollin,
James I. Thompson,
James D. Westbrooks.

On June 28, the crew departed Khabarovsk on a flight to Petropavlovsk-Kamtchatsky. After a flight of 17 hours, the airplane landed in Ust-Khayriuzovo. No fuel was available there and the crew waited 31 days to obtain fuel. On August 15, the airplane took off from Ust-Khayriuzovo at 1202LT bound for Petropavlovsk-Kamtchatsky. About two hours into the flight, the engine started to misfire. The flight engineer modified the fuel selector without success. After the engine stopped, the pilot attempted an emergency landing when the airplane crashed on a hill located 53 km west of Petropavlovsk-Kamtchatsky. The copilot was killed, the radio operator broke a leg and both other crew members escaped unhurt.

The pilot was completing a training flight when the airplane crashed in unknown circumstances in Wade. The sole occupant was killed.
Crew:
1st Lt Harold W. Prusa, pilot.

The airplane was engaged in an ambulance flight from Glazhevo to Syasskie Ryadki, carrying one pilot and two wounded soldiers. It crashed in unknown circumstances, killing all three occupants.

The crew was engaged in a night training mission when he encountered some engine problems according to eyewitnesses. The four engine bomber went out of control, dove into the ground and crashed in a huge explosion in a field located some 10 km south of Hastings. All nine crew members were killed.
Crew:
Pvt Raymond W. Carillion,
2nd Lt James J. Daly,
S/Sgt John D. Hazen,
1st Lt Eugene G. King,
2nd Lt Maurice E. McCall,
Cpl Ernest L. Prather,
Pvt Steve J. Spataro,
Cpl George Eilert Strenge,
2nd Lt Louis Homer.

The twin engine airplane departed Moncton on a ferry flight to Montreal with a crew of four on board. While cruising over Maine, weather conditions deteriorated. Two other similar airplane diverted to Millinocket, Maine, while the pilot of JS173 decided to continue to Montreal. Nevertheless, the visibility was poor and the pilot descended into instrument conditions when, at an altitude of 2,690 feet, the airplane impacted hilly terrain in the Saddleback Mountain. Three crew members were killed and the sole survivor walked away for few hours before finding help. According to the survivor, the altimeter read 4,000 feet.
Crew:
Sgt Edward H. Hollenbach, pilot, †
Lac Arthur C. Duffield, †
A2c Paul Paterson, †
A2c Earl Machan.

The airplane crashed in unknown circumstances into lake Srednee Vaengskoye located southeast of Severomorsk-1 (Vayenga-1) Airbase. All three crew members were killed.
Crew:
Cpt Georgy Pavlovich Shcherbinin, pilot,
S/Lt Isaak Alexandrovich Zilberg, navigator,
M/Lt Leonid Kirillovich Plastinin, radio operator.

The airplane departed RAF Oakington at 2128LT on August 13 on a mine laying operation in the Daffodils region. Approaching the Danish coast, it was shot down by a German fighter and crashed into the sea off Nymindegab. Seven crew members were killed and an eighth occupant survived and became PoW.
Crew:
Sgt James Alexander Adamson, †
P/O Henry Astell-Burt, observer, †
Sgt Gerard Carroll, †
F/Sgt Hugh Mackenzie Clark, †
Sgt William Gordon Foale, †
Sgt John Wilfred Street, wireless operator, †
Sgt Frank Arthur Hayes, air gunner, †
Sgt Victor Henry Sharp.

For unknown reasons, the pilot was forced to make an emergency landing in Thetford. At least one crew member was killed, Sgt John G. Holstine.

While on a reconnaissance mission in the region of Zubtsov, the airplane failed to return to base and was lost without trace.
Crew:
M/Lt Vasily Sidorovich Ivanykin, pilot,
Lt Vadim Vasilievich Chernobay, observer,
Cpl Ivan Prokofievich Kirichenko, radio operator.