This is a list of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft from 1945 to 1949, grouped chronologically by year. Not all of the aircraft were in operation at the time. For more comprehensive lists, see the Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives, the Air Safety Network or the Dutch Scramble Stoffer & Blik Database. Combat losses are not included, except for a few singular cases. Aircraft terminology Information on aircraft are the type and, if available, the serial number of the operator; the constructor's number, also known as the manufacturer's serial number (c/n); exterior codes; nicknames (if any); flight call sign, and operating units. January–March 1945 1 January A Focke-Wulf Fw 190D-9 Black 12 of 10./JG. 54, flown by Leutnant Theo Nibel of the Grimbergen force, was downed during Unternehmen Bodenplatte when it struck a partridge. The bird made a hole in the plane's radiator, forcing a gear-up landing near Brussels. A Lockheed P-38G-10-LO Lightning, 42-13400, c/n 222-7834, crash-landed on Attu Island in the Aleutians, west of Anchorage, Alaska, on a training mission; the pilot, 2nd Lt. Robert Nesmith, was uninjured. The plane's propellers were torn off, its horizontal stabilizer was broken, and its left nacelle was buckled. After a salvage for parts, it was abandoned in place. Recovered in June 1999, it was transported by helicopter to the U.S. Coast Guard station at Attu and flown to Anchorage in an Alaska Air National Guard Lockheed C-130 Hercules. The plane was registered as N55929. Restored at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, it was placed on display in McCloud Memorial Park at Elmendorf in April 2000. 2 January Admiral Bertram Ramsay, departing from Toussus-le-Noble, France in a Lockheed Hudson for a meeting with General Bernard Montgomery in Brussels, was killed with four other people when the aircraft crashed on takeoff. The cause was attributed to icing, which made the aircraft tail-heavy. 10 January A Northrop P-61B-1-NO Black Widow, 42-39445, c/n 964 of the 550th Fighter Squadron, based at Hollandia, New Guinea, on a supposed proficiency flight (the pilot took three passengers, including a 20-year-old WAAC nurse), landed (largely intact) at the level of the Cyclops Mountains, a few miles from its airfield. All aboard survived, with minor injuries. The airframe, recovered in 1989 by helicopter, is being restored at the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum in Reading, Pennsylvania. 19 January RAF group captain J. F. X. McKenna AFC, elected a fellow of the Royal