Clint Eastwood Ditching 30 Sept 1951
 

Private Clint Eastwood (now actor and director) was getting a lift in a Douglas AD-1Q dive bomber that crashed into the Pacific Ocean off the Point Reyes Peninsula near San Francisco on 30 Sept 1951. The pilot was Naval Lt, (jg) P. C. Anderson. Eastward swam to shore and Anderson paddled to shore. The plane ran out of fuel in fog

Can anyone identify the serial and Anderson?


Of course Eastwood is now the director of Sully the film about true Hudson ditching
Thanks Paul

Re: Clint Eastward Ditching 30 Sept 1951
 

Eastwood or Eastward?

Re: Clint Eastward Ditching 30 Sept 1951
 

Chris

Typo fixed And title
Thanks
Paul

Re: Clint Eastwood Ditching 30 Sept 1951
 

Private Eastwood was a passenger in AD-1Q 09383, which was flying from NAS Seattle to Mather AFB. The pilot became lost in bad weather and ditched off Point Reyes.

Re: Clint Eastwood Ditching 30 Sept 1951
 

George

Many Thanks for that

Kind regards

Paul

Re: Clint Eastwood Ditching 30 Sept 1951
 

Interesting. Here's another name I've often wondered about (and never thought to ask anyone). Has anybody ever identified any aircraft flown by Hall of Fame and Boston Red Sox baseball player Ted Williams, who flew with the Marines in WWII and in Korea (and lost several years of baseball doing so)? Or the any of the bombers flown by Jimmy Stewart or George McGovern (I think it was) over Europe in WWII?

Re: Clint Eastwood Ditching 30 Sept 1951
 

Suspect "P C Anderson" IS actually FRANCIS COLEMAN ANDERSON USN O-419051 - Some news reports quote FC and initials not "PC"

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg...&GRid=13766655

KIA in a AD-4N Skyraider #124748 night bomber with Detachment F, Composite Squadron 35 aboard the carrier USS KEARSARGE (CVA-33) On January 28/29, 1953

Also killed was
Aviation Electronics Technician Second Class John Robert Schmid #3182981 USN of Nebraska

http://www.honorstates.org/index.php?id=5924

Eastwood and Anderson paddle to shore in Dingys

Re: Clint Eastwood Ditching 30 Sept 1951
 

A facebook post confirms pilot as Francis Coleman Anderson

Re: Clint Eastwood Ditching 30 Sept 1951
 

Anderson's aircraft was AD-4N 125709 and it was believed to have been an operational, not combat, loss.

Re: Clint Eastwood Ditching 30 Sept 1951
 

George thanks for correcting the AD-4N serial 125709

Paul