interred in St. Aloysius Old Cemetery with full military honors. The B-32 42-108578 was scrapped in Kingman, Arizona after the war. 19 August Pilot 1st Lt. James K. Holt ferried captured Messerschmitt Me 262A 500098 ("Cookie VII", FE-4011) from Newark Army Air Base in New Jersey to Freeman Field in Indiana with a refuelling stop in Pittsburgh at about 4 pm as one of two Messerschmitts being sent for testing after arriving in the U.S. aboard . Landing in Pittsburgh, his brakes failed; he overran the runway, went down a steep incline and hit the side of ditch, tearing the engines and undercarriage off the jet and breaking the fuselage in half. The pilot was unhurt, but the airframe was a total loss. 22 August "San Diego, Aug. 22 (AP) - A Navy patrol bomber exploded in midair today and crashed into the sea 20 miles southwest of here. Names of the crew of 10 were withheld. A Navy submarine tender, witness of the crash, launched a boat but found no survivors." Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer BuNo 59885 of VPB-197, operating from NAAS Camp Kearney, California, was the airframe destroyed. 24 August The second (of two prototypes) McDonnell XFD-1 Phantom, BuNo 48236, was damaged in a belly landing. 28 August Consolidated Consolidated B-32-20-CF Dominator 42-108528 of the 386th BS, 312th BG, crashed east of Amaro-O-Shima in the Ryukyu Islands after engine failure. Eleven of the 13 aboard survived one of World War II's last missions. Consolidated B-32-20-CF Dominator 42-108544 was written off when it lost an engine on takeoff from Yontan Airfield on Okinawa. It skidded off the runway, exploded, and burned; thirteen people were killed. 29 August The temperamental Wright R-3350 Duplex-Cyclone powerplant, prone to overheating and fires, led to the loss of Boeing B-29-40-MO Superfortress 44-86274 of the 421st AAF Base Unit at Muroc Army Airfield in California (flown by Julius H. Massen) when an engine burned. The crew of eleven bailed out 20 miles southeast of Muroc, according to the Aviation Archeology database. "Muroc, California, Aug. 29 (AP) - A crewless B-29 plane headed for the Pacific ocean today after its 11-man crew bailed out when one of the huge ship's engines caught fire, Muroc Army air field officers said. All members of the crew were reported to have landed safely near Lancaster." 2 September "The Navy and the Marine Corps last night (7 September) disclosed that a