Crashes and Accidents: Post War 46-47

I am in the process of documenting every airplane crash and accident that occurred
at ​Mitchel Field/Mitchel AFB.
​Researching and cross-referencing crash records and documents is a time consuming and tedious process.
I hope to include details and photos.
Please be patient and check back often for updates.

​Thank you. Paul Martin, webmaster.

1946

460110  PT-17 41-966 76 AAFBU Langley Fld AACS GLNU 2 Cardinal, Albert A USA NY Mitchell Fld 
460128  A-26C 44-35238 110AAFBU Mitchel Fld, NY 1AF MF 3 Eisenberg, Monroe (NMI) USA NY Hempstead 
460205  TB-25J 44-29252 FLM 1AAFBU Bolling Fld, DC CAF CBLMF 4 Warren, Robert H USA NY Mitchell Fld 
460210  P-47N 44-88438 110AAFBU Mitchell Fld, NY 1AF CRLEF 4 DeWitt, Charles W USA NJ Ft Monmouth/ 10mi SE 
460213  C-45F 43-35907 110AAFBU Mitchell Fld, NY 1AF CBL 3 Huey, Stanley G USA NJ Millville AAF 
460216  B-17H 44-83716 110AAFBU Mitchell Fld, NY 1AF TACW 3 Castle, William (NMI) USA MI Selfridge Fld 
460226  AT-6D 44-84210D 110AAFBU Mitchel Fld, NY 1AF CBL 3 Ferguson, Mathew H T USA NY Mitchel Fld 
​460412  AT-6D 44-87215B 110AAFBU Mitchel Fld, NY ADC CBL 3 Vincent, Donald E USANY Mitchel Fld 
460507  A-26C 44-35484  Hq 100AAF BU Mitchel Fld, NY ADC TOAMF 4 Logan, Harry R Jr USANY Mitchel Fld 
460520  L-5 45-35025 D 104AAFBU Mitchel Fld, NY ADC LACNU 3 Rolen, Lloyd R USANY Mitchel Fld 
460620  UC-45F 44-87058 B 4108 AAFBU Newark AAB, NJ AMC LAC 3 Anderson, Robert J USA NY Mitchell Fld 
460627  AT-6F 44-81838  Mitchel Fld, NY ATC GACF 3 Bishop, Melvin L USA NY Mitchel Fld 
460703  C-47B 43-49541 100AAFBU Mitchel Fld, NY ADC TAC 3 Steed, Thomas W USA FL Marianna AAF
460806  C-47A 43-48089D 104AAFBU Mitchel Fld, NY ADC CBL 3 
Humphries, Donald R USA NY Commack/ 1 1/2mi NNE 
Newsday August 7, 1946
460815  P-47N 44-88757 62FS 56FG Selfridge Fld, MI SAC GAC 3 Jones, James W USA NY Mitchell Fld 
460815  P-47N 44-88680 61FS 56FG Selfridge Fld, MI SAC GAC 3 [parked aircraft] USA NY Mitchell Fld 
Newsday August 30, 1946
460917  B-29 45-21795 4149AAFBU Olmstead Fld, PA AMC BD 3 
Lewis, Stanley C USA NY Sayville/ 23mi S 
Newsday September 18, 1946
​461008  AT-6C 42-49005 113AAFBUMitchell Fld, NY ADC GAC 3 [parked aircraft] USANY Mitchell Fld 
461008  AT-6C 42-49019 113AAFBUMitchell Fld, NY ADC GAC 3 [parked aircraft] USANY Mitchell Fld 
461008  B-17G 44-8139WRXFlt 4108AAFBUNewark AAB, NJ AMC TAC 3 Hoffpauir, Frank W USANY Mitchell Fld 
461008  AT-6C 41-33070 113AAFBUMitchell Fld, NY ADC GAC 4 Hawk, Kenneth G USANY Mitchell Fld 
461029  P-51D-25NA 44-73114 D 104AAFBU Mitchell Fld, NY ADC TAC 3 Roberson, Richard M USA NY Mitchell Fld 
​461110  P-51D-25NA 44-73551 113 AAFBU(R Mitchell Fld, NY ADC GLNU 3 Fenton, William J USA NY Mitchell Fld 

1947

470112  AT-6D 42-84315D 104 AAFBU Mitchel Fld, NY ADC GL 3 Frey, Ernest A USA NY Mitchel Fld 
470208  TA-26C 44-35461 D 104 AAFBU Mitchel Fld, NY ADC TOA 3 Lane, Douglas S USA NY Mitchel Fld 

470214  P-47N 44-88793 D 104 AAFBU Mitchel Fld, NY ADC CBL 4 Kelly, Converse B USAPA Greater Pittsburgh Apt 

470224  P-47N 44-88718 H 104 AAFBU Mitchel Fld, NY ADC TOAMF 4 Haws, Herbert F Jr USANY Mitchel Fld 

​470225  AT-6C 42-49005 AFRU 113 AAFBU Mitchel Fld, NY ADC CBL 3 DeVall, Thaddeus C Jr USANY Mitchel Fld 
​470312  P-51D-25NA 44-73114D 104AAFBUMitchell Fld, NY ADC LAC 4 Marks, Mortimer D USANY Mitchell Fld 

470315  C-47B 44-77200 G 1102 AAFBU Mitchel Fld, NY ATC W 3 Sanford, William M USA TN Memphis/ 20mi S 

470319  TA-26C 44-35450 D 104 AAFBU Mitchel Fld, NY ADC LAC 3 Kirberger, Myron F USA NJ Ft Dix AAF 
470410  AT-6C 41-32426 113AAFBU Mitchel Fld, NY ADC TACNU 3 Hardin, Loerandsey D USANY Mitchel Fld 
470411  C-45F 44-47313A 44AAFBU Craig Fld, AL AU LAC 4 Csizmadia, Joseph A USA NY Mitchel Fld 
​470414  C-47D 45-93374AAFBU 102WxG Mitchel Fld, NY ATC GMAC 3 Gamage, Leonard A USAPA Greater Pittsburgh Apt 
470502  A-26B 41-39405 132FS 101FG Dow Fld, ME ANG KCR 4 
Van Der Zee, John A USA NY Mitchel Fld 
Wendell L Russell
Wendell L Russell
​BIRTH unknown
DEATH 2 May 1947
BURIAL Long Island National Cemetery
East Farmingdale, Suffolk County, New York, USA 
PLOT K, 18057
John Jacob Van der Zee
BIRTH 22 Jul 1914
DEATH 2 May 1947 (aged 32)
BURIAL Riverside Cemetery
Fairhaven, Bristol County, Massachusetts, USA 
470519  P-47N 45-50012 22FS 36FG Mitchel Field CDC BO 4 Gainer, Hubert W US ANY Rockaway Point 
470604  AT-6C 42-3936 AFRU 113AAFBU Mitchel  Fld, NY ADC LACNU 3 
Keefe, Lawrence A USA NY Mitchel Fld 
470609  AT-6C 41-32258  AFRU 113 AAFBU  Mitchel Fld, NY ADC KCR 4 
Franklin, Kenneth L USA NY Bay Shore/ 5mi SSE 


​Kenneth L Franklin
​BIRTH 11 Apr 1922
DEATH 9 Jun 1947 (aged 25)
BURIAL Greenfield Cemetery Uniondale, 
Nassau County, New York, USA
PLOT section 56
470610  L-5B 42-99588 104 AAFBU Mitchel Fld, NY ADC CRLEF 3 Murray, Charles E USA PA Pittsburgh/ 10mi N 
470610  AT-6D 42-44467 AFRU 113AAFBU Mitchel Fld, NY ADC TAC 3 Marek, Rudolph J Jr USA NY Mitchel Fld 
470610  AT-6D 44-81288 AFRU 444AAFBU Mitchel Fld, NY ADC TAC 3 Morris, Robert L USA NY Mitchel Fld 
​470630  P-84B 45-59505  Republic Avn Corp Apt, NY AMC DTC 4 Webb, Willard J USA NY Cold Spring Harbor/ 1/2mi N 
470710  XF-12 44-91002 Flt Tst D  Republic Apt, NY AMC LAC 3 Elliott, William W USA NY Republic Apt 
470720  AT-6D 42-85688 102BS 106BG Mitchel Fld, NY ANG LAC 3 Fenstermacher, Walter L USA NY Mitchel Fld 
470823  AT-6D 42-84307 104BU Mitchel Field, NY  MIA  
Allred, Owen R USA NY Over Long Island Sound, NY
Cpl. Ralph E. Poplett 


​Maj Owen Ray Allred
BIRTH 28 Jul 1919
Roosevelt, Duchesne County, Utah, USA
DEATH 23 Aug 1947 (aged 28)
At Sea
BURIAL Body lost at sea, Specifically: Lost In Long Island Sound, New York, USA
MAJOR USAAF WWII
MISSING
104th Air Force Base Unit

He was Squadron Commander, P-47 fighter pilot, with Merrill's Marauders, in the China-Burma-India Theatre during WWII. He had been awarded the Legion of Merit, Silver Star, Distinguished Flying Cross with Four Oak Leaf Clusters, and the Air Medal.

He was the son of Louis Ray and Bertha Aurella Timothy of Roosevelt, Utah and Redondo Beach, California. His siblings were Arvel, Kenneth Jay, Dwaine, Cree, Beth and half siblings Louis Franklin, Marcella, Clay, Allen Darwood, LaVee and Alta Bell. He married Elizabeth Maribell Ann "Sue" Sizer, 30 November 1944 in Corpus Christi, Texas.

He graduated Branch Agricultural College in 1941, and was attending Rutgers University in New Jersey at the time of the aircraft acident.

He was lost in USAF aircraft AT-6D #42-84307 along with Cpl Ralph E Poplett in Long Island Sound, off Matinicock Point, near Glen Cove, New York.

The above research was contributed by contributor B24CoPilotNiece (47391745)
​Maj Owen Ray Allred
​photo courtesy of RayRawson
Cpl. Ralph E. Poplett
BIRTH 21 Jan 1925
Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois, USA
DEATH 23 Aug 1947 (aged 22)
At Sea
BURIAL Body lost at sea
​WW2 Veteran, Navy, Post WW2, Army Air Corps-Cpl. Poplett was lost in a AT-6D A/C while enroute to Hawaii on 8-23-1947. He has been "Missing" for about 7 months.

He is the son of Mr. Vern & Mrs. Mary Poplett of Peoria, Illinois, and leaves one sister, Miss Dorothy, and three brothers, Leonard, Raymond, and Robert.

Awards: American Defense Medal, National Defense Service Medal, WWII Victory Medal.
470906  C-45F 44-87124 104BU Langley Field, VA  GMAC 3 Meeds, Henry J USA NY Mitchel Field, NY 
470906  P-51H 44-84403 42BU Maxwell Field, AL  GMAC 3 Parked Aircraft USA NY Mitchel Field, NY
471010  P-51H 44-64202 96FS 82FG Greiner Field, NH  CBLEF 
Hopkins, Robert W USA NY .5M E Mitchel Field, NY 
471028  C-47D 43-49450 104BU Mitchel Field, NY  TAC 3 St Clair, Carney E USA ME Augusta, ME 

Also: Aviation Archeology   and Joe Baugher's  Military Aircraft Serial Numbers

 Also  Honor Roll 33rd FG


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