Date:	Tuesday 26 January 1943
Time:	10:00
Type:	Douglas UC-67 Dragon (B-23)
Owner/operator:	United States Army Air Forces (USAAF)
Registration:	39-043
MSN:	2729
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 10 / Occupants: 10
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	11 mi S of Flomaton, AL -   United States of America
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	Drew Field, Tampa, FL
Destination airport:	Brookley Field, Mobile, AL

Narrative:
On 27 December 1941, the B-23 bomber 39-043 was modified into a high-speed transport and redesignated UC-67. It was lost in an accident on 26 January 1943 during a flight from Drew Field to Brookley Field, Mobile, and the west. At 1000 hrs this day, while flying in poor weather, it suffered a catastrophic structural failure and disintegrated in mid-air, crashing to the ground 11 miles south of Flomaton, Alabama, and not far from the the Florida-Alabama line. It caught fire and all ten crew and passengers were killed and burned beyond recognition.

Crew and passengers (all killed):
Major Sidney B Gimble, Jr. (pilot)
F/O Glenn A Johnson (copilot)
Lt Edward A Drucia
M/Sgt Pius C Witherow (engineer)
S/Sgt J C Melder (radio operator)
Brig Gen Carlyle Hilton Wash (passenger, 62 years old, a former commanding general of the Third Air Force USAAF and now commanding general of the Second Air Support Command)
Lt Col James H Cunnigham (passenger, Second Air Support Command)
Lt Col James A Cain, Jr. (passenger, Second Air Support Command)
Major John R Lee (passenger, aide to General Wash)
Lt John A Simon (passenger, Second Air Support Command)

"Fatal Army Air Forces Aviation Accidents in the United States, 1941-1945. Volume 1, January 1941-June 1943", by Anthony J. Mireles. ISBN 0-7864-2788-4
The Bakersfield Californian, 28 January 1943 (available online at http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/506583/)/
Drew Field newspapers, 29 January 1943 (available online at http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00076231/00046)
http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/src/AARmonthly/Jan1943S.htm
http://www.usaafdata.com/search

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
04-Sep-2011 13:27	Uli Elch	Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative]
04-Sep-2011 13:29	Uli Elch	Updated [Aircraft type]
22-Jun-2016 20:50	TB	Updated [Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative]
26-Jan-2017 14:11	Laurent Rizzotti	Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
08-Nov-2020 19:16	TB	Updated [Location, Nature, Source, Narrative]