Marysville, Michigan, killing both crew. "Near Port Huron, Mich., a Selfridge field [sic] army airplane crashed just after takeoff, cremating Lieut. Frank J. Findlay, 30, Detroit, member of the air corps reserve, and Private George J. Scott, 27, Chicago. The pair were making a training flight." The Aviation Archeology website incorrectly lists the serial number for this aircraft as Fiscal Year 31-223, which ties up to a Boeing P-12C. June Second prototype of two Mitsubishi 1MF10 Experimental 7-Shi carrier fighters, crashes when it enters irrecoverable flat spin. Test pilot Lt. Motoharu Okamura bails out, but loses four fingers in the accident, jeopardizing his career as a fighter pilot. As a Navy captain, he later commands the 341st (Tateyama) Kōkūtai for kamikaze attacks in June 1944. 14 June United States Navy Curtiss XSBC-1 Helldiver, BuNo 9225, crashed at Lancaster, New York. Rebuilt, it will crash again in September. 17 July "SUNNYVALE, Cal., July 17. - Two young naval air officers were critically injured here today when their plant [sic] crashed 200 feet into a flying field adjoining the naval air station. The men were H. W. Richardson, pilot, and Clinton S. Rounds, both student fliers." 27 July First prototype Messerschmitt Bf 108A, D-LBUM, wrk. nr. 695, accepted by the Luftwaffe for competition flying, crashes, killing the pilot, Baron Wolf von Dungern, a member of Erhard Milch's staff at the Reichsluftfahrtministerium (Ministry of Aviation).Korda, Michael, "With Wings Like Eagles", HarperCollins Publishers, New York, 2009, , p. 68. September The Curtiss XSBC-1 Helldiver, BuNo 9225, crashes again, this time when a wing-fold mechanism fails, allowing wing to sweep back in flight. Airframe destroyed. Redesigned new-build airframe as XSBC-2 received same Navy serial. 3 September Fokker Y1O-27, 31-599, of the 12th Observation Squadron, Brooks Field, Texas, crashes 5 miles W of Danville, Louisiana, which community is four miles W of Hodge, after starboard engine loses power. Pilot Cadet Neil M. Caldwell and passenger Pvt. Betz Baker die in crash and fire, passenger Pvt. Virgil K. Martin, riding in rear cockpit, survives with minor injuries. This aircraft has previously ditched in San Diego Bay, California on 16 December 1932.USAAF/USAF Accidents for New Jersey . Accident-Report.com. Retrieved on 2010-08-05. An Associated Press report in the Chicago Daily Tribune on 4 September identifies the survivor as Pvt. P. K. Martin and states that he was "seriously burned". 3 October Martin B-12A, 33-171, c/n 545, of the 11th