Seawolf (BuNo 30314) ground-looped during a cross-wind landing at NAS Anacostia in Washington, D.C., sustaining minor damage. 24 April Air Transport Command announced that six were killed when Douglas C-47-DL Skytrain 41-18530 crashed in the Tarawa atoll lagoon. "West Greenwich, R. I., April 24 (UP) - Two Navy fighter planes collided in the air today and one of them crashed in flames on a home, killing a mother and her 2-year-old son. Both pilots escaped injury. Trapped in the blazing bungalow were Mrs. Eva Parenteau, 30, and her son, Raymond." Mrs. Parenteau’s other two children, Phillip, 9, and Joseph, 8, were playing in a nearby yard and were not injured. The pilot of F4U-4 Corsair (BuNo 81416) bailed out after colliding with an F4U-4 (BuNo 81312), and his plane struck the home; the other fighter landed at NAS Quonset Point. Both aircraft were from VBF-82 on a training flight. 25 April "Hayward, April 25 (UP) - Three Navy men were dead today in the crash of a twin-engine Navy transport in Redwood canyon, seven miles from Castro valley. Deputies from the Hayward sheriff's office found the charred bodies of the three men in the burning wreckage. Their names were withheld pending notification of next to kin. No other passengers were believed on board the plane." 5 May "Spokane, Wash., May 5 (UP) - Airfield officials at Billings, Mont., said tonight at [sic] Sgt. H. D. Avery of Youngstown, Ohio, had parachuted from an overdue C-45 Army plane in trouble over Wilsall, Mont., but that the whereabouts of the plane and six other passengers was unknown. Air search attempts were hampered by bad weather. Avery said that he jumped on orders from Major D. L. Van Fleet, pilot of the plane, when the craft developed motor trouble over Wilsall. He said that none of the other passengers parachuted and the plane continued on its course." The wreckage had not been located by 10 May. Beechcraft C-45F (43-35681) of Air Materiel Command, Wright Field, Ohio, piloted by Maj. Dorence L. Van Fleet, was downed 37 miles north-northeast of Livingston. The C-45 struck Lobo Peak in the Crazy Mountains in a snowstorm, killing all six on board. The wreckage burned, and the bodies were badly charred. The survivor's correct name was Frank Avry. 10 May On a mission out of NAS Pensacola in Florida, Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer (BuNo 59437) of VB-4 collided in