found after a four-month search. 20 May In an accident similar to the B-25 Mitchell hitting the Empire State Building in 1945, USAAF Beech C-45F Expeditor 44-47570 of the 4108th AAF Base Unit, Air Materiel Command, on a navigation-training flight from Lake Charles Army Air Field in Louisiana, crashed in fog at about 20:10 into the 58th floor of the Bank of Manhattan Trust Building at 40 Wall Street in New York City whilst attempting to land at Newark Army Airfield in New Jersey. Five crew members were killed. The War Department identified the dead as Maj. Mansel R. Campbell, pilot, Pontiac, Michigan; Capt. Tom L. Hall, Sioux Falls, South Dakota; 1st Lt. Robert L. Stevenson, Bronx, New York; 1st. Lt. Angelo A. Ross, Whitehall, New York; and 1st Lt. Mary E. Bond, W.A.C., Newtown, Pennsylvania. The flight, which had stopped in Smyrna, Tennessee, was last in radio contact with the Newark tower at 19:08. A Grumman J4F-2 Widgeon amphibian out of NAS Brunswick in Maine made forced landing on Sebago Lake due to engine trouble, receiving moderate damage. The crew was uninjured. 23 May Wilmington, Massachusetts: On the morning of May 23, 1946, two U. S. Navy F6F-5N Hellcat aircraft took off from the Squantum Naval Air Station for a tactical training flight. One of the aircraft (Bu. No. 70927) was piloted by Ensign Stephen J. Pilcher, 22; the other was piloted by his long-time friend, Ensign J. Thomas Holmes (22). Both men were from Wilmington, Massachusetts. Pilcher was not scheduled to fly, and was filling in for another pilot. The pilots flew to Wilmington, where they engaged in mock combat over the town. At about noon, Pilcher’s plane entered a dive from about 1,800 feet and pulled out near the ground. Pilcher attempted to regain altitude; the plane went into a slow roll to the right before it nosed over and hit the ground. The plane exploded on impact, killing Pilcher instantly, in a wooded area in Wilmington’s Nee Park section between Cedar and Harris Streets. After the accident, Holmes returned to Squantum. 25 May "Honolulu, May 26 (UP) - Headquarters of Pacific division, Army Air forces air transport command, announced today that a C-54 Skymaster [was] missing between Kwajalein and Guam with five crew members. There were no passengers. Listed as part of the freight load was 8,600 pounds of mail." C-54G-1-DO 45-489 of the 1521st AAFBU,