the second day of the attempt. 24 December Boeing B-17G-95-DL Flying Fortress 44-83790 of the 1385th Base Unit, Bluie West One, Greenland, delivering presents and mail to isolated outposts on Baffin Bay, ran out of fuel on Christmas Eve; pilot Chester M. Karney made a forced landing on snow-covered, frozen Dyke Lake in Labrador. None of the nine aboard were injured, and they were picked up on 26 December by a ski- and JATO-equipped Douglas C-47. Officers at Atlantic Division headquarters of Air Transport Command, Westover Air Force Base in Massachusetts said that a snowstorm earlier in the day delayed a flight by the C-47 to fetch the seven crew and two passengers from the ice, and they had prepared to spend a third night in sub-zero temperatures. A successful rescue was achieved, however, and the marooned were flown 275 miles to Goose Bay. The Fortress was abandoned, and sank to the bottom of the lake. Located in July 1998, it was recovered from the lake on 9 September 2004 and is being restored to fly in Douglas, Georgia. 29 December "NAPLES, Italy, Dec. 29. (AP) - Three United States navy men were killed when a helicopter from the aircraft carrier Midway lost its rotor and fell into a scrap iron pile in the port of Naples today. Two were listed as Naval Officers Lamm and Jack Peter. Their addresses and the name of the third victim were not available. Witnesses said the helicopter took off from the carrier, anchored in Naples harbor, a few minutes before the crash. The accident occurred a few hundred yards from the Friendship Train food ship Exiria." USS Midway operated Sikorsky HO3S helicopters in 1947. January–March 1948 2 January North American P-51D-25-NT Mustang 45-11535 crashed 40 miles north of Roswell, New Mexico shortly after noon, killing the pilot. Maj. Charles Beck, public information officer at Roswell Army Airfield, said that the plane's home base had not been determined. 6 January Boeing B-29-95-BW Superfortress 45-21829 of the 328th Bomb Squadron, 93d Bomb Group, crashed and burned at Castle Air Force Base in California, but the eight crew and two civilian passengers escaped the bomber without serious injuries. 7 January "LOUISVILLE, Ky., Jan.8 (AP) - The Kentucky national guard headquarters revealed here today that Capt. Thomas F. Mantell Jr., 25, was killed in a plane explosion near Franklin, Ky., yesterday while chasing what was believed to