USAAF Survivors from Sinking of Italian Submarine Narvalo - 14 Jan. 1943

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Originally Posted by Stig Jarlevik

Good point Frank

But surely there must have been some reporting system for loss of aircraft, otherwise the units would run out of aircraft in the end.

It certainly explains the lack of connection between serial numbers and crews but it does not explain the seemingly big gap where we don't know exactly when a certain aircraft had been lost. Somewhere such a loss must have been reported.

Cheers
Stig

A report would have been written for any aircraft that did not return for any number of reasons. And families would have been notified.

I attended a funeral for a man where a letter to his parents was prominently displayed. It stated that their son's plane had been shot down

while on a mission over Austria. I suggest checking Red Cross records as well.


Best,
Ed