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機上有美軍第二十航空隊指揮官詹姆斯·埃德蒙·帕克少將隨機陣亡.

B-17G-95-DL s/n: 44-83779    

(MSN 32420) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 11Jun45. 6th Ferrying Group, Air Transport Command, Long Beach Field, CA 11Jun45. Ferried Long Beach - Las Vegas, NV - Cheyenne, WY 12/13Jun45. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Jun45. Assigned to IRON (Seventh Air Force, Hawaii) 14Jul45. Ferried Cheyenne - Nashville, TN - Savannah, GA 17/18Jul45. 302nd Base Unit (Staging Base), Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 18Jul45. Ferried Savannah - Dallas, TX - Long Beach, CA 25/26Jul45. Assigned Kauai, Hawaii 26Jul45. Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, Cincinnati, OH Jul45. Departed US 30Jul45.

Headquarters, Twentieth Air Force, Harmon Field, Guam, Mariana Islands. Fatal crash in bad weather en route from China to the Philippines at Hukou, northern Formosa 19Mar46. MACR 15495 Assigned to OSSO (Thirteenth Air Force, Tacloban, Leyte, Philippines). Excluded from inventory 1Sep46 Major General James Edmund Parker, Commander of the Twentieth Air Force, was the pilot and died in the crash. Colonel George V. Holloman, an aviation-instrument inventor and early experimenter with guided missiles, was also killed. Holloman had received the DFC for conducting the first instrument-only landing of an aircraft. Alamogordo Army Air Base in New Mexico was renamed Holloman AFB on 13th January 1948

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