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The entire USMC crew
of Beechcraft SNB-5 Bu No 29649 is seen by us thanks to the daughter of
T/Sgt. Keith Ferguson, Mrs. Terry Contreras
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1st Lt. Willard M. Grubbs USMCR.
(Photo courtesy Ron Grubbs)
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Lt. Charles H. Hyde, Jr., USMC posses
alongside a Consolidated PBY Catalina in 1941. He was killed on 9/17/42
along with another USMC pilot while flying a North American Aviation
SNJ-3 on a routine training mission. The SNJ-3 crashed in the rugged
Santa Ynez Mountains near Santa Barbara, California. A second USMC
aircraft crashed killing both pilots as they circled the SNJ-3 wreckage
on the following day. Marc McDonald has recently located the SNJ-3 flown
by Lt. Hyde. (Photo courtesy Ted Hyde via Marc McDonald) |
USAAF 2nd Lt. Donald
O. Pedrazzini pilot of Consolidated B-24D
#41-24262 that crashed on 12/6/42 in the coastal mountains of Northern
California.
B-24D story |
