ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 250430
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| Date: | Monday 31 January 1944 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  Vought F4U-1 Corsair |
| Owner/operator: | United States Navy; VF-17 |
| Registration: | 18005 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing |
| Location: | Sea,15 miles SE of Cape Gazelle, East New Britain -
 Papua New Guinea
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Piva Yoke airstrip, Bougainville |
| Piva Yoke airstrip |
VF-17 was returning to base after an escort mission to the Rabaul area.
Two Corsairs were dived on by an enemy fighter and one of them was hit and began to glide down with a smoking engine. The stricken aircraft was followed down by the wingman who was then attacked by another enemy plane. The wingman managed to evade the attack and drive off his attacker, but when he looked for his leader's Corsair again he was unable to see it.
An extensive air search was made the next day on the track that the missing pilot would have followed on an attempt to get home, but there was no sighting.
Lt (jg) Howard McLain Burriss USNR was declared Killed in Action.
R.I.P.
Sources:
https://www.aviationarchaeology.com/src/USNrptsType.htm#Database%20Notes
' The Jolly Rogers, the story of Tom Blackburn and Navy Fighting Squadron VF-17 ' by Tom Blackburn with Eric Hammel, pub. by Zenith Press.
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 19-Apr-2021 18:05 | ASN archive | Added [, ] |
| 01-Oct-2021 03:53 | angels one five | Updated [Time, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
| 09-Dec-2021 01:46 | Ron Averes | Updated [Country] |
| 29-Jun-2023 09:02 | Ron Averes | Updated [[Country]] |
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