Volume I: U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Coast Guard Aircraft Lost During World War II - Listed by Ship AttachedDuring World War II, the U.S. military lost some 35,000 aircraft to enemy action, training incidents, typhoons, aircraft carrier deck mishaps, mechanical failures or just normal wear-and-tear where aircraft were scrapped and used for parts to keep others flying. Many just failed to return from their missions. To date, the 15,069 aircraft represented in this 3-volume set is information initially transferred from hand-written "Aircraft History Cards" and are the total number of U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard aircraft lost between 7 December 1941 and 15 August 1945, and lost outside the continental United States (CONUS). Volume I represents the information on any aircraft lost that was attached to the 197 different ships in the database. Given the thousands of hours that went into this effort, the author hopes that, as a 3-volume set of reference books, it provides assistance to others who are researching ship, squadron and aircraft histories. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
USS CARD as CVE11 42 | 11 |
USS BENNINGTON CV20 | 20 |
USS CABOT CVL28 | 37 |
USS CHANDELEUR AV10 | 42 |
USS CROATAN ACV25 | 56 |
USS FANSHAW BAY CVE70 | 73 |
USS HELENA CL50 | 87 |
USS NEWJERSEY BB62 | 152 |
USS PHILADELPHIA CL41 | 167 |
USS PRINCETON as CVL23 | 173 |
USS SAN FRANCISCO CA38 | 187 |
USS SANTEE ACV29 | 201 |
USS SAVO ISLAND CVE78 | 212 |
USS SUWANNEE AO33 | 225 |
USS TICONDEROGA CV14 | 238 |
USS IDAHO BB42 | 99 |
USS KENNETH WHITING AV14 | 112 |
USS LOUISVILLE CA28 | 125 |
USS MACKINAC AVP13 | 127 |
USS MINNEAPOLIS CA36 | 140 |
USS VICKSBURG CL86 | 249 |
USS WASP CV7 | 262 |
USS WHITE PLAINS CVE66 | 278 |
USS WINDHAM BAY CVE92 | 291 |
Common terms and phrases
Aircraft lost April AREA PILOT FATE arrived August battle stars battleship bombardment BUNO SQDRN LOST CAPT CENLANT CENPAC CENPAC CENPAC cruiser DATE TYPE BUNO DECK LOSS-KAMIKAZE destroyers ECENPAC ECENPAC ECENPAC EMPIRE EMPIRE EMPIRE EMPIRE LTJG Eniwetok escort carrier Espiritu Santo February fire Fleet FORMOSA FORMOSA FORMOSA Guam GULF LEYTE GULF HAWAII ECENPAC IE SHIMA invasion Islands IWO JIMA IWO JIMA IWO January Japanese JIMA IWO JIMA June Kwajalein launched LEYTE GULF LEYTE GULF PHIL Lingayen Gulf LOST AREA PILOT LTJG LUZON LUZON LUZON Majuro Marianas October ofthe OKINAWA EMPIRE OKINAWA OKINAWA OKINAWA operations PALAU patrol PEARL ECENPAC Pearl Harbor PHIL DECK LOSS-TYPHOON PHIL PHIL PHIL PHILIPPINE SEA PHILIPPINE SEA PHIL RADM raids sailed SAIPAN SEA PHIL DECK SHIP SANK SOPAC SOPAC SOPAC SOPAC SQDRN LOST AREA steamed SW PAC task force task group torpedo TRUK TYPE BUNO SQDRN Ulithi UNASSIGNED PHILIPPINE SEA WCENPAC WCENPAC WCENPAC