of land forces in North Africa, was killed in the 12:15 crash of his North American B-25J-25/27-NC Mitchell 41-30330 (c/n 87-8495) of GLAM (Groupe de Liaisons Aériennes Ministérielles), named Tailly 2, at Colomb-Béchar, French Algeria. Departing Oran at 10:15, the plane flew into a sandstorm. LeClerc's body was returned to France, where it was taken to Paris along the route that 2e DB had followed in August 1944. A funeral service was held at Notre Dame de Paris, and he was interred in a crypt at Les Invalides. USAF Douglas C-47B-6-DK 43-48736 (c/n 14552/25997) of the 15th Troop Carrier Squadron, 61st Troop Carrier Group, piloted by Wesley B. Fleming en route from Pisa to Frankfurt-Rhein-Main AFB and thirty miles off course, crashed in the Italian Alps near Trappa, Italy. All five crew and 15 passengers were killed. A search involving hundreds of aircraft from several countries was abandoned on 11 December; The wreckage was discovered eight months later. 30 November "Tokyo, Dec. 1 (AP) - The wreckage of a plane believed to be an air transport command C-47 missing with two aboard since Sunday morning has been located 5000 feet up the snowclad slopes of Mount Fuji, the First cavalry division said today. The missing plane, carrying only a pilot and copilot, left Haneda airfield near Tokyo on a flight to Itami airbase near Osaka. The United States Far East air force said no radio contact was established with the plane after its takeoff." 9/10 December "WESTOVER FIELD, Mass., Dec. 11. (AP) - Six American soldiers were found still alive today beside the wreckage of a big transport plane which carried 23 others to death in a midnight crash Tuesday in the sub-Arctic wastelands of Labrador. Rescuers - moved overland by dogsleds and through the air by helicopter - reached the survivors, trapped in icy wilderness eight miles north of the R. C. A. F. airfield at Goose Bay. Air transport command headquarters here said meager reports from the scene gave no indication as to the condition of the survivors. Three doctors were flown in to the scene through a snow and sleet storm to give emergency treatment before the men are evacuated by helicopter to Goose Bay. The rough, rocky terrain made it impossible to bring the six survivors by land and preparations were being made to fly them out to a hospital in Goose Bay. One helicopter -