westward from Newark, N. J. Witnesses said one engine sputtered as the craft left the field. The ship made it across the Missouri river, immediately north of the field lost altitude rapidly and topped a tree on the bank of the river. One wing caught the embankment of the Burlington railroad tracks and the ship caught fire, falling in flames north of the track." 17 September "First Lt. Kenneth Robert Frost was killed early yesterday afternoon (17 September) when his P-38 fighter plane crashed approximately 40 miles north of the Army Air field at Daggett. Lt. Frost, attached to the 444th Army Air force bombardment unit, [sic] was the son of Percy O. and Louise Frost of Los Angeles. A qualified board of officers will be appointed to investigate the cause of the crash, Army officers said." Lost was P-38L-1-LO, 44-24492, listed as from the 444th Combat Crew Training Squadron. The crash site was about 25 miles northeast of Yermo (according to the Aviation Archeology database), or from the 444th AAF Base Unit with the crash site 30 miles northeast of Daggett (listed by Joe Baugher). 18 September USAAF Lockheed C-69-5-LO Constellation 42-94551 belly-landed at Topeka Army Air Field in Kansas after experiencing engine problems. Consolidated TB-24J Liberator, built as B-24J-1-NT 42-78549 from the 425th AAF Base Unit at Gowen Field in Idaho, piloted by William P. Bordemer, experienced engine failure and crashed north of Deeth, Nevada. "Elko, Nevada, September 18 (AP) - One crewman and possibly three parachuted to safety from a Boise-based B-24 bomber which crashed today 30 miles north of Deeth, Nev., a search plane reported tonight. Lew Gourley, piloting a Piper cub, [sic] who first discovered the bomber's wreckage, said he saw one flier hanging unconscious in the harness of one 'chute and that two other 'chutes had been sighted. 'The man who was still in the 'chute harness in the morning has apparently come to,' Gourley said after a second flight to the scene. 'He was extricated from the 'chute and sat up and waved to us. 22 September On the first day of a planned two-day exhibition of captured German aircraft at Freeman Field in Indiana, pilot Lt. William V. Haynes, 20, completed his routine in one of the eight remaining Focke-Wulf Fw 190s at the base (the same Fw 190D-9, Werke Nummer 211016, coded FE-119, which he ferried from Newark, New Jersey, to