B29-#42-24644 crash time April 13, 1945 Crash position The Chiba Katori city Sawara sandbank Affiliation 73rd bombing team 499th BG of XXIBC 878 bombing party Attack target The Tokyo army factory Cause of crash Fighter (Captain fourth squadron Toshio Sasa of an army flight) Body nickname crew Arrangement inside the plane Name Class Recognition number Life and death Captain LATIMER and Will F.Jr. Captain 0-431457 X copilot JENKINS and Obie first lieutenant 0-806074 X Nav LUNDEGALL and Charles A. second lieutenant 0-698482 X Bombing hand MUHLEBECK and Ralph X. first lieutenant 0-739489 X Engineer SHERDAN and Neal A. first lieutenant 0-864621 X Radio operator JOHNSON and Chester A. Jr. Second grade staff sergeant 38415508 X Radar hand ELINGSTON, Irvin C. Second grade staff sergeant 39271130 X Central firearms control VANCE and Louis T. Technical staff sergeant 35728624 R.Gunner WELSH and John W. staff sergeant 36877951 X L.Gunner SUTHERLAND, William W. Jr. Staff sergeant 18190973 X Tail.Gunner WALK and Walter E. Staff sergeant 37433718 X The right wing and a petrol tank were pierced by night fighter Nick of Captain 4th squadron Sasa [ Toshio ] operation of an army flight, and it fell into the rice field of the 4th engine destruction by fire and the Chiba Katori city Sawara sandbank. A Johnson 2 grade staff sergeant, Staff Sergeant Sutherland, Staff Sergeant Welsh, and Staff Sergeant Walk were restrained in the crash spot neighborhood, and they were seen off in eastern part military-police headquarters. An Elingston 2 grade staff sergeant's body was discovered on May 5, and was buried in the spot. Staff Sergeant Walk died of May 1 acute pneumonia in the military-police lockup, and he was buried in the Koishikawa army cemetery. Three persons who remain were imprisoned by the Tokyo military prison, and died in the flames by the air raid on May 25. Only the Vance technical staff sergeant restrained by the navy was seen off in the Ofuna concentration camp, and went back after the war. The five dead bodies were collected from crash wreckage by the local criminal investigation which lasted [ 1 / October ] from September 25, 1947.

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