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Date: | Tuesday 11 April 1944 |
Time: | 11:00 |
Type: | Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless |
Owner/operator: | United States Navy (USN) |
Registration: | 54272 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | 4 km from Soledad Aerodrome -
Colombia
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Phase: | |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Hit a tree, crashed and burnt. Ammunition exploded. Ensign Charles Ruben Teter (24) of VS-59 and ARM3c Theodore Luyster Jr, (34) of Headquarters Squadron, Fleet Air Wing Three.
Sources:
https://www.abmc.gov/decedent-search/luyster%3Dtheodore https://fr.findagrave.com/memorial/6264288/charles-ruben-teter La Nación (Santiago) 12 April 1944, p6
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
10-Apr-2020 16:06 |
Laurent Rizzotti |
Added |
03-Jul-2020 15:10 |
Digger |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |