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The EXCEL tabulation
of losses identifies 271
aircraft of the 1st
Fighter Group
lost in World War II
and list specifics of their loss as derived
from records in the National Archives.
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Each line item is a summary compilation
from
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Prepared by the Intelligence Officers of
the 1st Fighter Group
and its three Squadrons (27th , 71st ,
& 94th)
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MISSING AIR CREW REPORTS (MACR’s)
Also prepared by the Intelligence Officers
after a loss is reported in mission debriefings
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WWII MEMORIAL REGISTRY
Individual memorial pages available via the
Internet at http://www.wwiimemorial.com
Some by the War Department, some by the
American Battle Monuments Commission,
and some by relatives & friends of the
lost individual.
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NATIONAL ARCHIVES ONLINE DATA BASES
The National Archives at http://www.archives.gov has searchable databases for POW’s
and the casualty listings of those
determined by the War Department to have died .
The
deceased files are listed by County of
residence upon enlistment. The POW files
identify the internment dates and sites as well as release dates.
The
tabulation is in alphabetical order of the last names of the pilots lost. The following describes the columns of data.
SOURCE
The National Archives issues
MACR copies via microfiche -- a 4”x6” film containing images of the 8.5”x 11”
pages of the original documents . A
‘fiche’ usually contains up to four unrelated MACR’s -- except by their
numerical cataloging number. In
buying a particular MACR, you receive
copies of up to three numerically adjacent, but unrelated MACR’s. The fiche may contain images of over fifty pages
of material in greatly reduced scale which must be read on suitable microfilm
projectors and printed to full scale thereon.
In this tabulation, if the
SOURCE was a MACR, the fiche# is listed.
To supplement the limited MACR listings,
other losses were identified through review of the 1st
Fighter Group history by John Mullins—“An Escort of P-38’s”. The SOURCE for such is listed as
‘MULLINS’. Additional losses were
identified through research of the National Archives online databases. The SOURCE for such is listed as
MACR #
The 14,000+ MACR’s are numbered
generally in their chronological order of occurrence. We have been fortunate to
have a full index to the MACR’s which was provided by Steve Blake, officer and editor of the P-38 National
Association. The index provides the date
of the loss and the type of A/C along with USAAF group # and general
geographical area of loss which allows close correlation with mission report
data for definitive ordering from the Archives.
A MACR may include up to a dozen or so pages depending upon the incident
complexity.
DATE
The date of the loss is given in
a six digit form for convenient computer sorting. The first two digits represent the year,
the next two--the month and the last two -- the day of the month. --- e.g. 440610
A/C
The lost aircraft model.
SQ
The Squadron of the pilot.
NAME
Full name of the lost pilot
LOCATION
A short description ( i.e. the
country) of the crash or last sighting.
The text of the MACR often estimates the Lat/Lon coordinates or provides
a map sketch, but are often very general and possibly in error.
P38 S/N
The serial # of the aircraft is
given in the MACR text and is a critical data item for crash site
searches. The MACR text identifies the
serial #’s of the engines and of the machine guns and cannon.
PILOT S/N
The MACR text identifies the
rank and serial # of the pilot and often gives the name & address of the
nearest of kin -- all vital data in conducting searches for the pilot’s remains
and/or family.
STAT
The status of the lost pilot as
determined through searches of WWII Memorial entries and various archival data
bases , including POW listings and USAAF casualty listings by hometown counties
of the
KIA= Killed in
Action DOI= Died of Injuries RTD=
Returned to Duty
FOD= Finding of
Death
DNB= Died of non-battle causes ACC= Accident
(non-combat)
MIA= Missing in
Action
POW= Prisoner of War
ABMC
The abbreviation of the American
Battle Monument Commission (ABMC) cemetery containing the interred remains-- if
the remains have been recovered from the crash site or if there is a Finding of
Death (FOD) without recovery at the crash site.
AR =
CA =
FL =
LO=