Naval Flyers Killed, 2 Hurt In Plane Crash – Patrol Craft Falls in California", Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois, Thursday 31 December 1942, Volume CI, Number 313, p. 4. 30 December "San Francisco, December 30 – Four army fighter planes crashed within a 12-hour span in the San Francisco bay area today. Three of the pilots were believed killed. Two of the ships plunged to earth near Hamilton field, one ten miles north of Napa and the other just south of the field. Another crashed and exploded in a salt pond near Newark in southern Alameda county and the fourth crashed in Lake Chabot in the east Oakland foothills. Hamilton field, which announced all four mishaps, said the victim of the crash nearest the field was Second Lieut. Lloyd E. Blythe, 24, of Oakland. Second Lieut. Howard B. Stivers (home address not given) rode his plane to earth as it fell in Lake Chabot and was rescued uninjured. The pilots of the other two single-seaters were not identified immediately." Blythe (also reported with middle initial G) was killed flying Bell P-39D-1-BE Airacobra, 41-28302, of the 326th Fighter Squadron, 328th Fighter Group, Hamilton Field. See also List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft References Bibliography Martin, Bernard. The Viking, Valetta and Varsity''. Tonbridge, Kent, UK: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd., 1975. . External links Aviation Week PlaneCrashInfo.com 1940