Date:	Sunday 15 August 1943
Time:
Type:	Douglas C-47-DL (DC-3)
Owner/operator:	United States Army Air Force - USAAF
Registration:	41-18668
MSN:	6029
Year of manufacture:	1942
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 9 / Occupants: 9
Aircraft damage:	Aircraft missing, written off
Category:	UI
Location:	SW of Tsili Tsili -   Papua New Guinea
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Port Moresby (unknown airport)
Destination airport:	Tsili Tsili Airfield

Narrative:
Missing between Port Moresby and Tsili Tsili.
The Douglas C-47 took off from an airfield in the Port Moresby area. It operated on a supply drop mission. While in the traffic pattern for Tsili Tsili Airfield, it was intercepted by Nakajima Ki-43 Oscars. The C-47 was shot down south-west of Tsili Tsili with the loss of all aboard. It was never found in searches following its disappearance.

The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge

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