ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 96652
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| Date: | Wednesday 2 February 1944 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Bell P-39N Airacobra |
| Owner/operator: | 93rd FSqn /81st FGp USAAF |
| Registration: | 42-9367 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | 4 km southwest of Ain Draham -
 Tunisia
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Ferry/positioning |
| Departure airport: | |
On 2 February 1944 three pilots of 93rd FS, 81st FG, Lts Henry D Rexford, John E Swanson and Howard M Watson, took off from Setif, Algeria, around 6pm to return to their home field (then in Italy) after a trip in areas they had been previously been based to try to locate mail for their group and to see some friends. The weather started closing in on them around the Algerian-Tunisian border and all three crashed some kilometers apart in mountains in this areaa, about 3,000 feet up. It was thought they collided in the air due to bad weather. All three were killed.
Rexford’s P-39N 42-9367 and Swanson’s P-39N 42-8842 crashed respectively 4 km southwest and 3 km northwest of Ain Draham, Tunisia, while Watson’s P-39N 42-9696 crashed a little more west, 2 km southwest of LaCroix, Algeria.
Sources:
http://www.armyairforces.com/P39-crash-in-Tunisia-m75642.aspx
http://www.armyairforces.com/P39-crash-info-m88442.aspx_
http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/src/AARmonthly/Feb1944O.htm
http://raf-112-squadron.org/81stfghonor_roll.html
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%C3%AFn_Draham
Location
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 03-Feb-2017 18:04 | Laurent Rizzotti | Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Nature, Source, Narrative] |
| 14-Feb-2020 13:56 | Iwosh | Updated [Operator, Operator] |
| 30-Jan-2021 10:34 | Anon. | Updated [Operator, Operator] |
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