|
|
|||||||
| Japanese and Allied Air Forces in the Far East Please use this forum to discuss the Air War in the Far East. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
|
#1
11th January 2023, 15:59
|
|||
|
|||
|
OS2U-3 BuNo 5810 - loss discrepancies?
AAIR, Joe Baugher et al have OS2U-3 Kingfisher BuNo 5810 lost on 5 August 1942 while serving on the cruiser USS Cincinnati in the Atlantic.
Killed pilot is given as (no rank stated) Robert G. Long. No such loss or name in the war diary of that cruiser, apparently on her way to Norfolk, VA that day. However, on 5 July 1942 Ens. Robert G. Long (from Boise, Idaho) got killed in a plane crash in Alaska, with a newspaper in late August 1942 writing that his body was found 'in the Aleutian Islands'. Mix-up of accidents? I wonder what accident really caused the death of Ens. Long (and crew?) and perhaps real fate of BuNo 5810. Thanks for info. Regards, Leendert 
|
|
|
Similar Threads
|
||||
| Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
| German overclaims in the East. Hartmann and others... | Nikita Egorov | Luftwaffe and Axis Air Forces | 232 | 31st January 2020 03:21 |
| F-84s vs MiGs | Daniel Nole | Post-WW2 Military and Naval Aviation | 9 | 24th September 2010 20:29 |
| Losses of FK I on 29.5.44 | yogybär | Luftwaffe and Axis Air Forces | 15 | 22nd January 2009 16:38 |
| Loss of Messerschmitt Bf 109G-6 WNr 160619 | Andreas Brekken | Luftwaffe and Axis Air Forces | 1 | 24th July 2006 20:26 |
| Loss record discrepancies, III./J.G.5, 28.09.1943 | Andreas Brekken | Luftwaffe and Axis Air Forces | 0 | 6th July 2006 14:47 |
Threaded Mode