before they were rescued. The three who died (Ensign Maxwell A. Lopez, ARM1 Wendell K. Henderson, and ARM1 Frederick W. Williams) were buried at the crash site, and their remains have not been recovered. January–June 1947 15 January An RCAF Beechcraft with five Air Force personnel and one civilian aboard developed engine trouble and crashed about halfway between Watson Lake and Whitehorse, Yukon. All were killed. 20 January "Rotan, Tex., Jan 20, (AP) - Two persons were killed and three injured in the crash of an army B-29 nine miles southwest of Rotan today. Six survivors parachuted from the craft, which was being ferried from Smoky Hil army air field, Salina, Kas., to Pyote, Tex., army air field. Three of these received only minor injuries. Lt. E. R. Henningsen, of Salina, pilot of the plane, who received minor cuts on his leg, identified the dead as Lt. Leonard J. Davenport of Ithaca, N. Y., and Tech. Sgt. Basil L. Joseph of Salina. Lt. Paul Taylor, the navigator, and Sgt. James W. Felkel also were injured." A Douglas R5D Skymaster operated by the Naval Air Transport Service crashed while making a ground-control approach to fog-bound Oakland Airport, California, when it struck an embankment and disintegrated as it slid down the runway after the undercarriage was sheared off. Despite this, 20 of 21 aboard survived with injuries. A WAVE medical corpsman was the only fatality. 26 January "Manila, Jan. 29 (Wednesday). (AP) - The 13th air force announced today that Lt. Calvin G. Fuller, Macon, Ga., and Cpl. Winfield H. Mobley, Hazelhurst, [sic] Ga., were killed Sunday in the crash of their training plane one mile north of the army's air base on Palawan." 27 January United States Army Air Forces Silverplate Boeing B-29-36-MO Superfortress 44-65385 of the 428th Base Unit, Kirtland Army Air Field, New Mexico, for Los Alamos bomb-development testing, crashed immediately after take-off from Kirtland on a routine maintenance test flight. No specific cause was documented; a fire in one engine and the pilot's failure to compensate for loss of power was believed to have caused the accident. Twelve crew members were killed. 28 January Two Vought F4U Corsairs collided in flight 12 miles south of Cecil Field in Jacksonville, Florida, killing one pilot and injuring the other when he bailed out. Lt. (j. g.) Jacob E. Lieb, USNR, 28, of Newhall, Iowa, was killed. Ens. Donald Loranger, USNR,