a member of Tabernacle Baptist Church. The message of Corporal Keefe's death was received by his parents Saturday morning." 14 July North American TB-25C Mitchell (built as B-25C-1) 41-13105, assigned to the 409th Fighter Squadron, 372d Fighter Group, Esler Army Air Field near Pineville, Louisiana, crashed and burned one mile northwest of Weldon, Texas in a heavy rainstorm, killing nine crew members. The engine of Boeing B-29-50-MO Superfortress 44-86329 of the 237th Army Air Forces Base Unit (Combat Crew Training School) failed on takeoff from Kirtland Field, Albuquerque, New Mexico. The plane crashed, killing 13 and injuring one. 15 July Boeing B-29A-45-BN Superfortress 44-61721 (c/n 11198) of the 236th Army Air Forces Base Unit (Combat Crew Training School), Pyote Field, Texas, piloted by Lieutenant Edward J. Szycher, of Bayonne, New Jersey, went missing after the crew bailed out at over northern Minnesota, north-northwest of St. Paul, Minnesota, after the bomber filled with gasoline fumes which threatened to asphyxiate the crew. All ten crew members descended safely, although one landed in Napoleon Lake in Itasca County and had to swim ashore. The airframe was never found. 16 July "Washington, July 17 (AP) - The Cuban embassy said today three officers of the Cuban army en route to Washington were killed in an airplane crash near Charleston, S.C., yesterday." "On July 16, 1945, Lieutenants Zorilla and Henderson, flying a C-45 number 212 and carrying as a passenger Major Rivero, an aide to the Chief of the Army, suffered an accident while on an approach to Charleston Airfield in South Carolina, United States while returning from a flight of two aircraft to Washington DC. In the other aircraft, piloted by Lieutenant Fernandez "El Callao" was on board the Chief of the Cuban Army, General Genovevo Pérez Dámera." The plane crashed near Ridgeville, South Carolina with Captain Roberto Henderson Benzanilla, Major Nicolas Rivero Garcia, Lt. Ricardo Zorrilla Armenteros and Genovevo Perez Damera. Consolidated TBY-2 Seawolf, BuNo 30303's port main gear collapsed at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, causing major damage. A U.S. Navy Curtiss SB2C Helldiver crashed about three miles west of Seven Oaks, California, killing its two crew members and causing a wildfire which burned "five or six square miles of slope" in the San Bernardino Mountains near the Santa Ana River. The Eleventh Naval District confirmed the two deaths on the night of 17 July, but withheld identification pending notification of next of