August ”RENNES, France, Aug. 6. - Four army fliers were killed today near here when their plane broke in two during maneuvers. The pilot was catapulted from the crushed fuselage and three others were burned to death when the plane crashed at the Gael military air camp and burst into flames.” 13 August Martin B-10B, 34-106, of the 96th Bomb Squadron, Langley Field, Virginia, crashes five miles W of West Point, Virginia, killing three of four crew. “WEST POINT, Va. (UP) - Three army flyers, trapped in a flaming bombing plane, were burned to death as the ship plummeted to earth early today. The radio operator parachuted to safety. The dead: Second Lieut. Willis S. Marvin, Riverside, Calif., pilot; Pvt. John J. Maher, McKeesport, Pa., and Pvt. James E. Crittenden, Richmond, Va. Norbert G. Flynn, McDuffy, O. [Note: This may have been a misreport for McGuffey, Ohio.], radio operator, jumped in a parachute and landed in a tree, suffering only a cut lip. The bomber plunged a thousand feet to earth about midnight. ‘There was a fire and I was given the order to jump,’ Flynn told H. W. Williamson of the Virginia state police. The radio operator was caught in a tree with his parachute and his shouts brought aid. He rode in the front seat of an ambulance that took him to Langley field. The bodies of his three companions were in the back of the ambulance. Williamson said Flynn was unable to tell just what happened except ‘there was some sort of a fire.’ Several persons who saw the bomber as it made a training flight from Langley field, heard a muffled explosion. Light flared in the plane, the motor coughed and the bomber fell.” 14 August ”WASHINGTON, Aug. 14. - The navy department announced that Lieut. Lawrence W. Curtin of Greenwich, Conn., was killed today in the wreckage of his navy plane which crashed into the Panama canal one mile northeast of the Pedro Miguel lock, the department was informed.” 20 August Prototype Vought XSB2U-1 Vindicator, BuNo 9725, first flown at Rentschler Field, East Hartford, Connecticut, on 5 January 1936, accepted by the U.S. Navy on 2 July 1936, crashes near Norfolk, Virginia, this date. During stall tests at low altitude (1,000 feet), the aircraft spun into shallow water of Willoughby Bay, killing the two aboard, pilot Lt. Cmdr. Samuel Hyer Arthur, and Chance Vought observer