I'm really stretching here, but here goes. The Coast Guard-manned USS Serpens (AK-97) blew up off Guadalcanal while loading #350 Torpex aerial...
I do know that Morgan was the pilot, I figured the higher-ranking? Captain would maybe be Medical Corps, but USMC sounds right as well.
Knew I missed something! It was 30 July 1945. Place was south of Omai Saki near Hamamatsu Airfield in the western part of Shizuoka Prefecture,...
Actually the USAAF just renamed them OA-10's but they were still Cats!
I am looking into the loss of a "Dumbo" that doesn't appear in any historical databases including MACR. I even have the names of the crew (all...