CRASH OF A P-400
AT WILLIAMSTOWN?
IN ABOUT APRIL 1942

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Subject:    Your Aug 20 msg
Date:             Tue, 24 Aug 1999 18:15:04 -0500
From:           "Charles King" <aceking@gbonline.com>

Hi Pete,

Just a partial answer, maybe more later when I have time to check some records. David Silverman a new pilot assigned to the 39th was killed landing on the center strip at Woodstock on 10 May 1942. It was probably a P-400. Plane was burnt and pilot thrown across the right wing also burnt leaving just a torso. Am not sure but believe he had taken off and made an almost immediate attempt to land.

Roger Warfield also a new pilot was killed in April of 1942 before we moved to Woodstock. Am not sure but think it was at Williamstown.

Book was published in the early seventies in paperback only. Later there were at least five new printings through the eighties and ninetys.

Another book by Caiden worth looking for is Samauri which tells the story of the Jap pilots we fought against in New Guinea.

Paperback published in the fifities. Also later printings.

Charlie King

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