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The Nome Nugget
Nome, Nome County, Alaska
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A B-29 Superfortress with 14 or 15 men aboard went missing over the Pacific since 1:34 a.m. PST while flying from Spokane to Honolulu as part of a training mission. Intensive search by army air-rescue and coast guard is underway. Officers including Col. Albert Shawer, Lt. Col. Richard Fry, and Lt. Col. James Trask were on the flight.
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SAN FRANCISCO, (AP)
An airforce superfortress with 14 or 15 men aboard has been unreported over the Pacific since 1:34 a.m. (PST). An intensive search is under way.
The big plane was one of 10 flying from Spokane to Honolulu.
The army air-rescue arm at Hamilton Field and the coast guard sent out search planes.
The missing plane last gave its position at 1:34 a.m. to the civilian aeronautics administration station at Sacramento. It was to have reported again upon reaching the Farallon Islands, about 25 miles off the Golden Gate. It failed to check in and nothing has been heard since.
All other planes in the flight have reported regularly.
The planes, attached to the 326th very heavy bombing squadron, left Spokane at 9 p.m. yesterday at 10-minute intervals.
The missing ship was the sixth in line.
The 10 B-29's left Spokane air force base last night with some of the base's top personnel aboard on a Far Eastern training mission.
The planes were scheduled to stop at Honolulu, then continue across the Pacific to Yakota air force base in Japan.
Officers participating in the flight included Col. Albert Shawer, commanding officer of the Spokane base; Lt. Col. Richard Fry, commanding officer of the 97th bomb group, and Lt. Col. James Trask, commanding officer of the 326th bomb squadron.
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Pacific Ocean Near San Francisco
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Departed 9 P.M. Yesterday From Spokane, Missing Since 1:34 A.M. (Pst)
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14 or 15 men aboard missing; intensive search underway by army air-rescue and coast guard
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B-29 Superfortress, sixth in a flight of 10 from Spokane air force base to Honolulu on Far Eastern training mission, last reported position at 1:34 a.m. (PST) to Sacramento station, failed to report at Farallon Islands, no further contact; other planes reported regularly