killing five crewmen and critically injuring a sixth. Identification of the dead and injured was withheld. Executive officer James Peterson said that the six men had flown to Olathe from Omaha for routine weekly drills, and were reserve officers or enlisted men in the reserve. 10 March "TUCSON, Ariz., March 10. (AP) - An Army Air force A-26 light bomber was reported to have crashed at the Nogales, Ariz. airport this afternoon. Apparently no deaths or serious injuries resulted. The plane was from March Field, California, the report said and was piloted by Lt. Frederick H. Rohde." 17 March Two Grumman F8F Bearcats assigned to the USS Boxer with VF-19A, left Naval Air Station El Centro for Naval Air Station Alameda in California and collided shortly after takeoff. The Eleventh Naval District said that both pilots were killed. 18 March A Boeing B-29 Superfortress from Spokane Air Depot in Washington, crashed while attempting a landing on a fog-shrouded runway at MacDill Field (near Tampa), Florida. Ten crew were killed and four injured. 20, 25 March Two large tornadoes struck Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City, damaging or destroying a large number of aircraft (including at least two Douglas C-54 Skymasters, a Douglas C-47 Skytrain, and many stored Boeing B-29 Superfortresses from World War II). In the first storm, "54 aircraft were destroyed, including 17 C-54 transports valued at $500,000 apiece. Also destroyed were 15 P-47 fighters and two B-29 bombers. About 50 other planes were damaged and about 100 vehicles were damaged or destroyed." In the second tornado, "84 planes were hit, 35 of which were destroyed. These included 18 B-29s, 8 P-47s, 20 B-17s, and 3 C-47s. Hangars and other buildings were destroyed." Other planes destroyed included Beechcraft AT-11s, Fairchild PT-19s and PT-26 Cornells. Damage from the second tornado was estimated at $6.1 million, and the total damage from both storms was estimated at $16.35 million. 21 March "McCHORD FIELD, Wash., March 21 (AP) - An air force C-47 with eight men aboard vanished over southwestern Washington during a severe storm this afternoon as it was making an instrument approach to the Portland, Ore., air base. Fears that it had crashed were heightened when no trace of the twin-engined transport was found by the time its fuel was exhausted at 5:07 p.m. Fairfield-Suisun air base announced the names of five of the men aboard. They were: Maj. John