The Aviation Archeology database lists USAAF Curtiss C-46D-15-CU Commando 44-77948 of the 811th Base Unit, Lawson Field, Georgia, piloted by William A. Ross, as crashing due to weather southeast of Oak Ridge, Mississippi, on this date. "Jackson, Miss., June 15 (U.P.). - Army officials today investigated the crash of a plane near Oak Ridge, Miss., in which 17 persons, two of them women, were killed." The Biloxi Daily Herald reported on 16 June that the sole survivor was Sgt. R. L. Bullock of Somerset, New Jersey, an engineer on a B-17 stationed at Laredo, Texas, who was thrown clear when the plane crashed and exploded. He managed "to grab some weeds and pull himself away", but was severely burned and was taken to Mercy Hospital in Vicksburg. Bullock said that after refuelling in Shreveport, Louisiana, bound for Lawson Field, the flight encountered heavy overcast and storms. The C-46 flight engineer warned those aboard to adjust their safety belts just before the transport encountered two air pockets, the first of which dropped the plane . "The pilot did everything he could to bring the ship out", said Bullock. "He never did lose control but the downward plunge was too rapid." The Daily Herald reported that the two female victims were a WAC and a WAVE. "The earliest lightning-related accident for which a detailed description is available involved a U.S. Air Force [sic] Curtiss C-46D transport plane en route from Dallas to Jackson, Mississippi, U.S., on June 14, 1945. While at 3,000 ft., one wing was struck by lightning. Unable to maintain altitude, the aircraft crashed into a wooded area." 15 June "London, June 15 (UP) - Twenty-seven members of the royal air force [sic] were killed early today when a Liberator crashed into the side of a hill on the Dorset coast at Swanage." RY-3, JT985, of No. 232 Squadron was lost. 19 June The Associated Press reported on 21 June that five men were killed when their army plane crashed near Crestview, Florida, on 19 June. Officials at Marianna Army Airfield in Florida said that the plane, en route from Eglin Field, Florida to Myrtle Beach Army Airfield, South Carolina, came down in a storm. First Lt. Joseph A. McGinnis, 24, the pilot, was from the Marianna base. He was the son of Joseph A. McGinnis of Philadelphia. The others (all stationed at Myrtle Beach) were First Lt. Lawrence F.