sent to Labrador when the crash was first reported - has been making relay hops during the day. A B-17 dropped medical supplies and food. Visibility was only fair and fears were expressed that bad weather, preventing further flights, might close in before the men could be evacuated. A space has been cleared within a half-mile of the scattered, charred wreckage to allow a helicopter to land and a second helicopter is being sent to Westover field to assist in the rescue. The hilly, forested countryside - although within a few flight minutes of the Green Bay airfield - makes it impossible to use a larger plane." Douglas C-54D-5-DC Skymaster 42-72572, c/n 10677, was destroyed. 11 December USAF Douglas C-47B-28-DK Skytrain 44-76366 (c/n 32698/15950) of the 608th Base Unit, Aberdeen Army Air Base in Maryland, en route from Biggs Air Force Base, Texas, crashed five miles from Memphis Municipal Airport in Memphis, Tennessee. Four crew and 16 passengers were killed. The plane came down three miles south of the Memphis radio range. "The Atlanta CAA reported there was a ceiling of 1700 feet at 7:30 p. m. shortly after the crash." The plane was returning to Aberdeen Proving Ground. The pilot was H. J. Schofield. 16 December "Norfolk, Va., Dec. 16 (AP) - Seven naval airmen were killed today when a Corsair fighter plane and a patrol bomber carrying a crew of seven collided in the air and crashed at the Norfolk naval air station. Naval spokesmen said the Corasair, [sic] attached to the carrier Coral Sea, collided at a 100 foot altitude with the right wing of the bomber, attached to amphibious group 3. The Corasair [sic] caught fire and its pilot burned to death. Sole survivor was a crewman aboard the bomber who was thrown from a gun blister when the plane crashed in swampy ground 300 yards from the Corsair. He escaped with cuts and bruises. Six bodies were recovered from the bombing plane." 23 December A Boeing B-29 Superfortress on a long-range-navigation training flight over northern Alaska with eight on board failed to return to Ladd Air Force Base in Fairbanks at the expected time of 22:00. Search planes were launched on 24 December, but were hampered by poor weather and little daylight. Hopes dimmed for the missing crew as search planes had no success in locating the downed bomber north of the Arctic Circle on