Wikipedia EN | 1943 in aviation

January 15 – A Douglas C-54-DO Skymaster flying from the United States to the Casablanca Conference Morocco and operated by Transcontinental & Western Air on behalf of U.S. Army Air Forces Air Transport Command, disintegrates in mid-air for undetermined reasons and crashes in the jungle near Reynsdorp, Surinam, 40 kilometers (25 mi) east-northeast of Paramaribo, killing all 35 people aboard.[6] The English novelist and screenwriter Eric Knight, creator of the fictional collie Lassie, is among the dead.[7]

Source:

Link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1943_in_aviation

Internal Link:

Date:

January 15, 1943

Categories:

World War 2

Tags:

Boxes:

Wikipedia

Years:

1943

Persons:

META DATA
    Scroll to Top