three spirals, the third of which caused the wing to disintegrate from the aileron out; the pilot called for the crew to bail out. The plane crashed in swampland seven miles east of town (according to one source), or seven miles west (according to another). Eleven of the twelve crew members safely parachuted out, including the co-pilot (freed by the pilot from the bomb hatch). The pilot, Robert A. Lane, could not escape and went down with the plane. The crew was on its final flight before its scheduled deployment to Japan. 9 August "Crashing into a power line five miles west of Corona at 5:22 p. m. yesterday (9 August) a Navy Corsair plane on routine flight from Los Alamitos fell into a river bed and burned, instantly killing the pilot. The identity of the pilot was withheld by naval authorities pending notification of first of kin. There was a short curtailment of electric power in the district served by the line. Navy authorities were investigating the crash last night." 11 August "Lisbon, Aug. 11 (UP) - A B-17 Flying Fortress en route to the United States from London via the Azores with 20 men crashed at sea 320 miles off Cape Finisterre today." North American TB-25J Mitchell 44-31401 (c/n 108-37376, built as B-25J-30/32-NC and converted) of the 3036th AAF Base Unit, Yuma Army Airfield, Arizona, piloted by Robert L. Laird, crashed into a mountain 25 miles south-southwest of Yucca Army Airfield in Arizona on a training flight from Yuma AAF. Its five-person crew was killed. "Yuma, Arizona, August 15 (UP) - Twin brothers were among five Army men killed in the crash of their B-25 plane into Powell peak near Topock, Arizona Saturday, officials of the Yuma Army airfield revealed today. The 20-year-old twin brothers were Second Lts. William G. Winter and John R. Winter, sons of William L. Winter, of Towanda, Pa. The twins were radar observers." The first of only two Nakajima Kikka twin-jet fighters, completed on 25 June and first flown on 7 August for eleven minutes by Lt. Cdr. Sasumu Tanaoka out of Kisarazu Naval Air Base, crashed on its second flight. The second unflown Kikka was shipped to the United States after the Japanese surrender. 17 August During Operation Dodge (the RAF airlift of troops home from Italian deployment), Avro Lancaster ME834 (coded KO-G) of 115 Squadron based at RAF Graveley struck HK798