ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 115332
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| Date: | Tuesday 21 March 1950 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  Republic F-84D Thunderjet |
| Owner/operator: | 79th FS, 20th FG, USAF |
| Registration: | 48-745 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Dobbins AFB, Marietta, Georgia -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Dobbins AFB, Marietta, Georgia (MGE/KMGE) |
| Shaw AFB, Sumter, South Carolina (SSC/KSSC) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities |
Republic F-84D-10-RE Thunderjet 48-745, 79th FS, 20th FG, USAF: Written off (damaged beyond repair) March 21 1950 when crashed on takeoff at Dobbins AFB, Marietta, Georgia (bound for Shaw AFB, Sumter, South Carolina).
Pilot on this occasion was 2nd Lt William Robb Kimbro, USAF (1928-1950). He survived this incident but was killed in action nine months later, on December 12 1950: he was the pilot of a F-80C Shooting Star fighter interceptor with the 25th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, 51st Fighter Interceptor Group. December 12, 1950, while on a combat mission, his aircraft received a direct hit by anti-aircraft fire over Sinuiju Airfield, North Korea and spun in. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.
Sources:
1. http://forgottenjets.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/F-84.html
2. https://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_serials/1946.html
3. https://www.aviationarchaeology.com/rptAF55.asp?RecID=3199
4. http://www.accident-report.com/Yearly/1950/5003.html
5. https://etvma.org/veterans/william-r-kimbro-11286/
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobbins_Air_Reserve_Base#Post-war
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