the prototype returned to flight testing two months later. 5 April Douglas C-47D Skytrain 44-76231, involved in an NAA mission, crashed in a field due to weather conditions. "The News-Review, Roseburg | Oregon, April 7 (AP) - Four men were killed when the transport struck a mountain near Decaturville, Tenn., on a flight from Washington D.C., to Memphis." The aircraft took off from a field of North American Aviation in California and crashed in Decaturville, Tennessee, killing four on board. The pilot was Col. James Linn Travis of Portland, Oregon, and the co-pilot was Capt. Bernard B. Brown. The other passengers were William Pounds and Kenton Case. Travis commanded a Flying Fortress group in the European campaigns of World War II. 9 April Douglas C-47D Skytrain 43-49258, c/n 15074/26519 (built as C-47B-10-DK), assigned to the 43d Bomb Group, Davis-Monthan Field, Arizona, crash-landed shortly after takeoff from Kelly Field, Texas, injuring many on board. "San Antonio, Tex., April 9 (AP) - Twenty-one soldiers were injured seriously tonight when a C-47 transport plane crash-landed near Kelly field here. In the plane were Negro baseball players, members of an army team en route to Davis Monthon [sic] field at Tucson, Ariz. It was not known tonight if all passengers were members of the team. Maj. Robert Loomis, operations officer at Kelly field, said as far as he knew no one was killed in the crash. The plane had taken off from Kelly field a short time before the crash. Witnesses said the plane encountered difficulties in the take-off. It rose slowly from the runway, cleared residences adjacent to the base, and settled down in a cotton field." The Aviation Archeology website listed the pilot as Sumpson L. Rawle, and the website and Joe Baugher report that there were fatalities. 19 April Boeing B-29A-85-BW Superfortress 44-87638, of the 30th Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, 20th Air Force, crashed and exploded one mile offshore at Kwajalein Island after take-off. Sixteen people were killed, and no bodies are recovered. One of the dead was Capt. Quitman B. Jackson, 24, of Columbia, South Carolina, a 1944 graduate of West Point. 8 May North American P-51D-30-NA Mustang 44-74652 of the 77th Fighter Squadron, 20th Fighter Group, based at Shaw Field, South Carolina, crashed at about noon near Cassatt, South Carolina. Col. W. M. Turner, executive officer at Shaw Field, said that ambulances and firefighting equipment went to the