a guard was being maintained in the swamp over the demolished plane. He said that Langley field [sic] officials had ordered the body prepared for burial at Arlington national cemetery, [sic] but that it was being held here pending arrival of the investigating commission which might wish to view it." Fairbanks Air Base, Fairbanks, Alaska, is renamed Ladd Field on 1 December 1939. 16 December "Miami, Dec. 16 – U.P.: Second Lieutenant Robert L. Carver, [service number O-18890,] twenty-eight, Barksdale field [sic], Shreveport, La., was instantly killed today when his 230-mile-an-hour P-26 army pursuit plane crashed in swamps twelve miles south of here. Carver was a former West Point football backfield star. He was attached to the fifty-fifth pursuit squadron that came here last week to participate in the general headquarters air force war games and the All-American air maneuvers." This airframe was P-26A, 33–87, and it came down ½ mi NE of Chapman Field, Florida. The Aviation Archeological Investigation & Research website lists the P-26 as being assigned to the 79th Pursuit Squadron, 20th Pursuit Group, at Barksdale Field, and that the aircraft stalled and spun in with fatal results. It also cites the accident date as 15 December 1935. Carver played for Army in 1929, 1930, and 1931, graduating from the United States Military Academy in 1932. The 20th PG will fly P-26s until January 1938. 1936 11 JanuaryMartin B-10, 33-151, c/n 519, of the 32d Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, is moderately damaged in a belly landing at Rockwell Field, Coronado, California, when the undercarriage fails to extend. The San Bernardino Daily Sun reported that "A big Martin bomber, its landing gear out of commission, was brought safely to earth with three occupants at San Diego yesterday, after one passenger had 'bailed out' over March field. [sic] Lieut. Paul B. Balfour, of Coronado, pilot of the ship, was credited with particularly skillful handling in landing it safely at Rockwell field [sic], San Diego. First indication that the craft was in trouble was wirelessed to March field shortly after Lieutenant Balfour, with three passengers, had taken off from the latter base. Circling over the field, the lieutenant gave the occupants their choice of taking to parachutes or staying with the ship in an attempt to land it. Private George L. Brown, of Golden Colo., elected to jump, 'bailing out' over the air field. He received a fractured ankle